ENCOFRADO CONSTrução III

Exhibited in “THEOREME, You Simply Destroy The Image I Always Had of Myself”, group show at MANA Contemporary, New Jersey,US, 2025. Curated by curated by Octavio Zaya, the exhibition brought together some 30 artists, mostly from Latin America, under the organization of Mana Contemporary, Jersey City. From the exhibition announcement:

The exhibition’s thematic focus, arising out of the works of the participating artists themselves, is the hypothetical question “What if…?”—as in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1968 film Teorema. In the exhibition, we pose this question while contemplating the world upside-down, as in the famous map of Joaquín Torres-Garcia (1936). Thus, the proposed theorem (What if…) implies an emancipatory project of some sort—say, as in modernity—but understood beyond the “pragmatism” that assumes that every radical attempt to change is always doomed to fail as in the barbarian realities of the 20th century. On the contrary, the exhibition is set in motion by the tensions between realities and appearances, for not only does it acknowledge the fact that appearances are just a mask over a reality of dependency and subjugation, but, hopefully, it will also show that appearances (upside-down, masks) have an emancipatory power of their own.

Installation views credits: E Lee Smith