GROUP EXHIBITION

Curated by ****Luisa Duarte & Marilia LoureiroFortes D’Aloia & Gabriel and Gomide&Co are proud to present Para-raios para energias confusas, a group show curated by Luisa

Duarte and Marilia Loureiro at Galpão, in São Paulo.

Setting off from a reflection on new artificial intelligence technologies, the curators propose an intergenerational dialog between 16artists that place contemporary alienation under scrutiny and invite the public to speculate on the production of subjectivitiesthrough the association of differences. In the words of Duarte and Loureiro, what is at stake is ‘A path in which the simultaneouslyconfused and diffuse energies of the contemporary world do not lead us to succumb or adhere to fear, nor harden beforedestabilisation. This unbalance, then, can be elaborated toward the attuning of vital tangles capable of keeping alive an opening ofmeaning.’

Adriana Varejão’s works reconfigure scientific techniques of population census, submitting them to formal organisation tactics thatpoint to the subjectivity and the incessant fluctuation of race signifiers in the post-colonial context of Brazil. This procedure is similarto that of Luiza Crosman, who emulates the visual culture of scientific graphs in her drawings to, ultimately, frustrate their utilitarianvocation. Negalê Jones and Rebeca Carapiá bring into play invisible dimensions of the artwork, amplifying the energetic propertiesof plants into sound waves, in the first case, and installing a field of electrical reverberations between the human body and copper inthe second. Tiago Mestre’s video installation projects shadows into the gallery, simultaneously obscuring and illuminating thesurrounding architecture, like Lydia Okumura’s site-specific sculpture, which takes advantage of colours and the corners of the wallsto project an impossible polygon into space. Cristiano Lenhardt, Juliana dos Santos and Renata Haar use drawing to give a pictorialform to the exchange between recognisable contours and familiar shapes.

Historical artists such as León Ferrari and Mira Schendel also participate in the exhibition with two sculptures, Untitled (1978/1982)and Droguinhas (1965/1966) that recompose space through lines, emptied volumes and the twisting of different materials. CinthiaMarcelle’s video work, Verdade ou Desafio (2018) and the installation Elo | Link (2023) by Sara Ramo, produces connectionsbetween the works in the show, with a revolving triangle that points in different directions, in the case of Marcelle, or an immensecord of heterogeneous materials, in Ramo’s case. Anderson Borba and Maria Lira Marques present works that start from organicelements such as wood and natural pigment to produce composite objects with a skilful and eloquent craft, while the sculptures bySonia Gomes use sewing as a compositional method for volumes that make the concatenation of disparate textures a formalprinciple.