GROUP EXHIBITION

Through juxtapositions of works carefully selected, featuring at the same time resemblance and difference–even if minimal–the show aims to stress that art is, and it has always been, global as it stands as a field of unlimited and always ever potentialaffinities, beyond contexts and chronologies.

Stressing affinity over genealogy, Co/respondences: Brazil and Abroad is an exercise of savage mind (pensée sauvage). It isso by embodying the fact that all thinking possess a ‘savage potentiality’, notably when freed from the utilitarian necessityof producing a capitalising result, allowing the visibility of ‘tiny intervals, brief periodicities, rhapsodic repetitions, analogicmodels’ between differential works– to borrow the words from anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro.

Drawing from that lesson, Co/respondences: Brazil and Abroad proposes a set of groupings between various artists,following diverse analogical rationale: unintentional poetic correspondences (Brigida Baltar and Asuka Anastacia Ogawa,Jonathas de Andrade and Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe or Daniel Buren and Fabio Miguez); resemblance within difference throughreal friendship and similar medium approaches (Sergio Sister and John Zurier); or both poetic and historical resonances,based on shared aesthetics (Antonio Dias and Jannis Kounellis, Paulo Bruscky and Robert Filliou, or Cristina Canale andMargot Bergman).