Afirmação – Group Show

Brazil: the affirmation of a generation

June 9 – July 30, 2023

Opening on Thursday, June 9 2023 ; 6:00-9:00 p.m.

Anderson Borba . Vivian Caccuri . Gal Cipreste & Masina Pinheiro . Lu Ferreira . Sabrina Fidalgo . Manoela Medeiros . Matheus Mestiço . Thiago Molon . Matheus Ribs . Gabriela Sacchetto

The “Afirmação” exhibition brings together eleven artists whose diverse practices (painting, sculpture, drawing, installation, photography, video) are all gestures that vibrate the contours of a certain contemporary Brazilian identity.

Complex ancestries, peripheral identities, syncretism of beliefs, denunciation of the colonial imaginary: these artists re-politicize the world in order to re-enchant it.

What was once hushed up, concealed or denied is now displayed, vigorously denounced or proudly displayed. “Afirmação” bears witness to this brasilidade (Brazilianness), which becomes a place of memory and confluence of differences, but also a motive for resistance, liberation and celebration of bodies and ideas.

Most of the artists are presenting their work for the first time in France, and much of it has been produced especially for the exhibition.

With the participation of: Anderson Borba, Vivian Caccuri, Gal Cipreste & Masina Pinheiro, Lu Ferreira, Sabrina Fidalgo, Manoela Medeiros, Matheus Mestiço, Thiago Molon, Matheus Ribs et Gabriela Sacchetto. 

Curated by William Massey