Selected exhibitions
2022
– 37th Panorama of Brazilian Art – “Under the Ashes, Embers”, curated by Claudinei Roberto da Silva, Vanessa Davidson, Cristiana Tejo and Cauê Alves, MAM Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, Brazil
2021
– “Fagulha Perdida em Meio ao Fogo”, solo show, OÁ Galeria, Vitória, Brazil
2020
– “La Piedra Pregunta, La Tierra Responde. Diálogos sobre Arquitectura sin Rastro”, solo show, curated by Amelie Aranguren and Cristiana Tejo, Casa do Brasil, Madrid, Spain
2019-2018
– “Aprendendo com o Barro”, solo show, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
2018
– “Open Spaces”, curated by Dan Cameron, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, USA
– “Continuum”, curated by Henrique Menezes, Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2017
– “The Fountain that Crossed the Line”, KCAI Crossroads Gallery, Kansas City, USA
– “Curucu no Parquet”, curated by Elaine Tedesco, Pinacoteca Barão de Santo Ângelo, Porto Alegre, Brazil
– “À Sombra da Cruz (Performing Christianity)”, curated by Gala Berger, Casa W, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2017-2016
– “Pariwat Jenipapo”, solo show, curated by Camila Fialho, Fotoativa, Belém do Pará, Brazil
2016
– “WaterScapes”, curated by Jesse Brandler Firestone, BOX Contemporary, FATVillage, Miami, USA
2015
– “O Vento Dissipa as Lembranças de uma Realidade Anterior”, solo show, curated by Bernardo Mosqueira, Santander Cultural, Porto Alegre, Brazil
– “Água Viva”, solo show, curated by Monica Hoff, Galeria Península, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Artistic residencies
2023
– Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
2021
– “Entre Nós”, Mosteiro Zen Morro da Vargem, Espírito Santo, Brazil
2019
– “Nomad AIR”, Oslo, Norway
– “INLAND – Campo Adentro”, Madrid, Spain
2018
– “CRIPTA747”, Turin, Italy
2016
– OMI International Arts Center, New York, USA
– “Fotoativa”, Belém do Pará, Brazil
– “Comunitaria, Curatoría Forense”, Lincoln, Argentina
– PIVÔ Pesquisa, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Entre Nós”, 2021, org. Clara Sampaio
– “KA’A, Arte é Natureza“, 2020, org. Denis Rodriguez e Maria Amelia Bulhões
– Catálogo da II Mostra do Programa de Exposições CCSP (Centro Cultural São Paulo), 2018, text by Camila Bechelany
– “Kerexu Jera Poty“, 2018, org. Claudia Zanatta, Denis Rodriguez and Leonardo Remor
– “Não Sou Daqui, Nem Sou De Lá. Gestão, Curadoria e Residência Artística em Rede“, 2017, org. Denis Rodriguez, Leonardo Remor and Mônica Hoff
– “Práticas Contemporâneas do Mover-se“, 2015, org. Michelle Sommer
– “Corpo Presente”, 2014, text by Márcio Pizarro Noronha
As a duo, our work interrogates visible and invisible boundaries that are imposed, such as the separation between nature and culture, contemporary art and popular art, modern architecture and vernacular architecture, technology and para-technology, artist and critic, curator and researcher, authorship and collaboration — divisions, binarities that separate us from our integrity and from the complex matrix of life, in which contradictory and complementary forces alternate and merge. Currently, two issues permeate our work, first, materials and materiality, and second, artistic/cultural practices and the production of works for the art system. We always take a pause before producing a new work, a sort of recognition and appreciation of the works and artists that have preceded us, and we research extensively before proposing and producing a new work: after all, why place a similar work in circulation in this world that is already saturated with objects and things? We always question ourselves regarding our actions and how other artists influence us and give life to our thoughts and desires to produce.
Over the past years, from immersions in different contexts and territories, and choosing diverse materials, but mainly clay, we have tried to expand the concept of sustainability beyond the logic of consumption and productivity, in alliance with other modes of living. We have undertaken research and works that invest in a critical view of coloniality, exalting the ancestral wisdom of human relationships with nature, by means of artistic practices that guarantee the use of materials that are not harmful to life and that do not produce non-recyclable waste. Thus, we carry out actions and dialogues that result in films, photography, objects, and installations that use methodologies, concepts, and reflections from anthropology with the aim of questioning the western ethnography that documents, describes, or narrates cultural practices without learning from them, without recognizing this knowledge as a sustainable alternative to a world in collapse as a result of the ideas of modernity and progress.
