Encruzilhadas
Identity
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“Encruzilhadas: We Believe in Street Corners” brought together seven sound offerings by 29 Brazilian artists. The exhibition invited the whole body to listen to scenes, voices, sounds, and expressions, turning the street corner—that place at the edge—into a gathering point for cosmologies. With our feet on the ground and our eyes on the sky, we set out to develop an identity born from the idea of representing the present moment: a mix of the power of ancestral rites and sound technologies, guided by one path—the presence of Exu in every creation. To visually translate the exhibition’s concept, we created a symbolic universe of images directly or indirectly connected to the orixá, bringing this entire crossroads together in a single place: the now.
Cuba: Ficción y Fantasía spans more than three decades of the country’s artistic production. Across different generations and languages, the exhibition reveals how imagination, spirituality, humor, and criticism become ways of reinventing Cuban reality.
Planetary Embassy imagines a form of diplomacy between humans, nature, and other living forces. In Belém, New York, Tokyo, and other territories, art, science, technology, and Indigenous knowledge came together in a space for listening, guided by patterns generated from natural sounds.
Clarice Lispector’s website at Instituto Moreira Salles offers two paths: one freer and more unpredictable, inviting visitors to explore the work through discoveries and detours, and another more direct. Manuscripts, letters, and documents from the archive reveal different readings and ways of (re)encountering Clarice.
Created by cinematographer Nicholas Bluff, Bluff Bounce develops reflectors for more natural lighting. We developed a precise, restrained graphic system inspired by the sensibility of someone who understands that lighting is also about choosing how to look.
