The works presented at Portas Vilaseca’s booth at SP-Arte 2025 bring together two guiding sensibilities that, while seemingly close, diverge in their approach: political art and the politics of art. The first group, featuring works by Randolpho Lamonier, Claudia Hersz, Guerreiro do Divino Amor and Pedro Victor Brandão, makes direct and incisive references to political figures, jargon, and elements of the global economy, crafting ironic narratives that probe the contradictions of a turbulent world. In these works, the real — the city, the material economy, the social sphere — and the digital — the media, the meme, and the noise — merge to create hyper fictions. These, while replicating the very systems they expose, also act as obstacles or even Trojan horses within the post-capitalist machinery.

In contrast, the selected works by Nádia Taquary, Mano Penalva, Antônio Pichillá, Arthur Palhano, Emilia Estrada, and Zé Carlos Garcia present a kaleidoscopic vision of the politics of art. While engaging with religious cultures, traditional manifestations, symbols of mass culture, or extraterrestrial landscapes, these works invite the viewer into experiences mediated by their material qualities. They propose a sensory dance in which the audience completes the experience with their own subjective memories, without a predetermined destination. Acting as mirages in the most positive sense—shimmering, unstable images that reflect the innermost desires of the beholder—they encourage personal interpretation. Despite differences in approach, both groups share the use of fabulation as a means to construct new relationships between appearance and reality, the singular and the collective.

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Portas Vilaseca at SP ARTE 2025
Booth: D12
02 – 06.04.2025
Pavilhão da Bienal
São Paulo – SP – Brazil