It is with enthusiasm that we receive, on the first floor of Superfície, the exhibition Onde a Terra Dobra[Where the Earth Bends], a solo exhibition by Marina Camargo, an artist recently represented by the gallery, which opens our 2023 exhibition program. With text by Taisa Palhares, the exhibition presents a set of of eight works that reveal the artist’s own vocabulary when questioning cartographic representations.

Based on the idea that every map has a fictional dimension, Marina manipulates, transforms and restructures cartographic narratives, altering the historical, economic, political and social meanings that govern these representations. As texts without words, her drawings investigate the flawed place of these models: what remains incomplete in the accounts of the world.

Pouring her production over different supports — sometimes in three-dimensional installations, rubber or metal, sometimes in the form of drawings, photographs or paintings — Marina Camargo attributes a corporeality to maps that does not belong to the nature of cartography, referring to a sculptural dimension of forms. The opening takes place simultaneously with that of CADEIRAÇO, a solo show by Andréa Hygino, on the ground floor of the gallery.

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Check out the exhibition’s catalog.

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Soft map [Infinite South]
2022
Rubber
220 × 400 cm