Centro Cultural São Paulo opens on Saturday (16) a new programme of exhibitions at its iconic space on Rua Vergueiro, in São Paulo. A benchmark in its field, this programme has been promoting important names in Brazilian visual arts over the past 30 years.
Brazilian artist Íris Helena is one of the highlights of this 33rd edition with a new series of works produced in 2023 during the writing of her PhD thesis “Livro do Tombo“. Guided by a dialectic between destruction and construction, memory and erasure, the series “Patrimônio Material” [ Material Patrimony ], emerges from her research started in 2018 and developed from visual memories of Brasília. In this set, the artist appropriates the remains of the original terracotta tile covering, characteristic of the finishing of viaducts and pedestrian crossings, later mischaracterized by unruly urban reforms. Archive images of the construction of the new capital are printed on these slabs, focusing on migrant workers, who only faced delusion, work analogous to slavery and the impossibility of fulfilling the dream of living in the planned city.
The exhibition also includes works by another 23 selected artists and takes up the building’s two exhibition floors, Caio Graco and Flávio de Carvalho.
On display until June. Free admission. Don’t miss it!
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