Incarnate Gust Ana Prata, Anderson Borba, Maria Andrade, Pedro França and Rodrigo Andrade

From July 25 to October 25, 2026, Casa de Cultura do Parque presents “Rajada encarnada” [Incarnate Gust], a group exhibition opening as part of the institution's II Exhibition Cycle of the year. Curated by Claudio Cretti, the exhibition features works by Ana Prata, Anderson Borba, Maria Andrade, Pedro França and Rodrigo Andrade.

The exhibition reflects on the procedures and operations that constitute artistic practice and the work of art itself, highlighting distinct artistic languages, methods of construction, and materialities that resonate with different intensities. In the accompanying curatorial essay, Thais Rivitti argues that the exhibition resists any overarching conceptual framework capable of encompassing the works as a whole. Instead, it invites visitors to closely observe how each artist develops and constructs their research over time.

"Setting aside, for a moment, the circumstantial references that each work inevitably carries and paying attention instead to its modes of construction. Following the gaze as it moves between the works, gliding across surfaces, getting caught in tangled knots, encountering harder, more opaque materialities, and oscillating with more frenetic vibrations. In doing so, it becomes possible to see the works in conversation with one another," writes the art critic and curator.

The exhibition includes two large-scale works by Pedro França (Rio de Janeiro, 1984), created from fragmented supports assembled through the collage of smaller pieces of paper. His construction strategy is one of accumulation: drawings transferred onto canvas using the monotype technique overlap repeatedly, generating density and weight through the persistence and abundance of lines and marks that reveal the artist's labor—torn areas, layered surfaces, and visible collages.

In contrast, Anderson Borba (Santos, 1972) often begins with subtraction. His process involves carving, drilling, and excavating wood, removing material to reveal form. His sculptures also demonstrate a particular attention to surfaces, engaging with questions traditionally associated with painting. Beyond volume and mass, his work investigates how material itself is perceived.

Within the field of painting—although the artists continually move across disciplines—Maria Andrade (São Paulo, 1967) creates light, atmospheric works guided by color. For the series presented in the exhibition, she attaches small metal wings to the paintings, creating suspended forms that oscillate between the sensation of floating freely and remaining anchored in space.

Ana Prata (Sete Lagoas, 1980), meanwhile, draws from everyday life—architectural fragments, wall coverings, furniture, and domestic objects—to displace them from their familiar contexts, expanding not only their visual presence but also their condition of isolation within empty space. Likewise using the world as a visual repertoire, Rodrigo Andrade (São Paulo, 1962) focuses on paint as a material in itself. Throughout his long career, paint has become almost sculptural in his practice, acquiring density and weight to create rough or smooth surfaces that engage viewers in distinct ways.

In addition to the group exhibition, the II Exhibition Cycle includes the solo projects Politics of the Surface [Política da superfície], by Ana Raylander Mártis dos Anjos (Gabinete), and Mythologies of Mystery [Mitologias do mistério], by Omep (Projeto 280X1020). According to curator Claudio Cretti, "this exhibition cycle seeks to challenge the constitutive dimensions of contemporary artistic practice, expanding the possibilities for interpreting the world while revealing, through these frictions, the power of opposition."