Press Release

What Comes Next / O Que Vem Depois is a group exhibition curated by Tamar Guimarães and Kasper Akhøj, bringing together artists from Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel’s program across generations. Drawing on their longstanding engagement with narrative structures, circulation, and the unstable status of images, Guimarães and Akhøj conceive the show as a spatial proposition that resists fixed definition. What is assembled here could be thought of as an archive, a business lounge, or a sacrificial site—frameworks that never fully settle, yet condition what takes place within them.

Works by Anderson Borba, Cerith Wyn Evans, Cristiano Lenhardt, Efrain Almeida, Erika Verzutti, Ernesto Neto, Frank Walter, Gokula Stoffel, Ivens Machado, João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva, Leda Catunda, Mauro Restiffe, Rivane Neuenschwander, Robert Mapplethorpe, Rodrigo Matheus, Tadáskía, Tamar Guimarães & Kasper Akhøj, Tiago Carneiro da Cunha, Valeska Soares, and Wanda Pimentel are placed in proximity so that they complicate and extend one another, forming a constellation shaped by association rather than taxonomy.

Across sculpture, photography, film, and installation, the exhibition unfolds through a set of shifting relations in which bodies, objects, and images remain in flux. A reclining figure may suggest leisure as much as anticipation; an object may appear as body, support, or remainder, depending on where and how it is encountered. Nothing is fully contained within itself, but continues elsewhere, taking on new forms as it circulates. The solid stone bench Altar Menor, by Guimarães and Akhøj, registers this condition in mineralized form, as if an earlier, animate state had passed into a site of offering that is not entirely separate from exchange, waiting, and negotiation. In this context, the exhibition reflects on the art market as a field in which value follows desire and is intensified through transformation: works are offered, held back, and altered as they move, accruing meanings and conditions beyond their point of origin.

The exhibition features a text by Tamar Guimarães.

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Installation Views

Exhibition view: Group Exhibition, What Comes Next, Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo (28 May–20 June 2026). Courtesy Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel, Photo: Eduardo Ortega.
Exhibition view: Group Exhibition, What Comes Next, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo (28 May–20 June 2026). Courtesy Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, Photo: Eduardo Ortega.
Exhibition view: Group Exhibition, What Comes Next, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo (28 May–20 June 2026). Courtesy Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, Photo: Eduardo Ortega.
Exhibition view: Group Exhibition, What Comes Next, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo (28 May–20 June 2026). Courtesy Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, Photo: Eduardo Ortega.
Exhibition view: Group Exhibition, What Comes Next, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo (28 May–20 June 2026). Courtesy Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, Photo: Eduardo Ortega.

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About the Gallery

Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, formerly Galeria Fortes Vilaça, presents a diverse and dynamic programme of exhibitions featuring Brazilian and international artists, alongside screenings, book launches, talks, and kids’ workshops. The gallery was founded in 2001 by Márcia Fortes and Alessandra D’Aloia, and took on its current name in 2016 when Alexandre Gabriel transitioned from Art Director to partner.

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