SP-ARTE ROTAS

The selection for this edition of Rotas includes works such as A Man and a Woman (1967), in which intertwined bodies blend into voluptuous and ambiguous forms, in an intensity that finds echoes in the sinuous circulation of Unhinged (2017) by Valeska. In Woman at the Steering Wheel, Uterine Xiphopagus, and Woman Map (1968), Teresinha combines humor, eroticism, and formal invention, in dialogue with the impacts of counterculture and the social and techno-scientific transformations of the postwar period. In Pernas pra que te quero (1970), fragments of female bodies form an enigmatic visual lexicon, whose title alludes both to the swiftness of an escape and the anticipation of an encounter.

From then on, the works reveal that every physical encounter is also a test of limits—contours defined by cuts, fits, and collisions—which, in Eurótica (1970), unfold into hybrid figures that dissolve gender boundaries. According to critic Frederico Morais, the artist constructs ‘a kind of free territory,’ challenging taboos and expanding the repertoire of her erotic art. In Unhinged (2017), created 50 years after her mother’s first works, Valeska rearranges articulated headboards, creating an unstable path that invites interaction and displaces everyday objects from their original functions.

By bringing together Teresinha’s playful-erotic frontality and Valeska’s sensory architecture, Gomide&Co proposes a territory of intergenerational crossings, in which artistic expression is transmitted, transformed, and resonated.