Portas Vilaseca opens its annual exhibitions calendar with ‘Carnaval Crypto’, artist Randolpho Lamonier‘s first solo show in Rio de Janeiro.

Featuring a critical text by Bernardo José de Souza, the show presents a group of works set against the backdrop of a carnival in the midst of a financial, geopolitical and environmental crisis.

Bringing together around 30 works produced over the last five years, including previously unseen pieces, the exhibition’s narrative is built on bringing together different materials and techniques that are part of the artist’s repertoire, such as textiles, assemblage, screen printing, painting, video and neon.

The works enunciate a field of sensations as broad as their technical variety: from the intimate scenes described by the still lifes in the Bittersweet Haiku series, to the excesses of disinformation, click-baits and digital noise in the Scroll Series, passing through the unusual sarcasm of Tropicália Lixo Lógico. In this selection of Lamonier’s recent work, historical and mythological characters and pop culture figures coexist in the excesses of a post-apocalyptic carnival spread across the streets of a Brazil that is melting under a world that is collapsing.

INFO

Carnaval Crypto – Randolpho Lamonier
Text: Bernardo José de Souza
Opening: 20 February 2025 | 19h00
Exhibition runs until 26 April
Where: Portas Vilaseca | Rua Dona Mariana, 137 – casa 2 | Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Free admission

Photos: Rafael Adorjan