Quebracorpo

Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel presents Quebracorpo, a group exhibition curated by Pedro Köberle and Rafael Baumer at Carpintaria, Rio de Janeiro. The show brings together works by 20 artists who embody or translate fractures, sutures or stitches in bodies: the human figure is absent or veiled, present only in traces, signs of making or in the process of disappearing. Divisions, splinters, growths and skeletal allusions course throughout the show in sculptures, paintings, videos and photographs, gathering and dispersing disparate fragments through material echoes and visual rhymes. 

Mauro Restiffe and Lucia Laguna break down space through incisive diagonals, while the works of Anderson Borba, Marina Rheingantz and Nuno Ramos accumulate matter to form rough and rugged volumes. The slender sculptures of Eliane Duarte and Ivens Machado imprint aspects of twisted organs and bones, reflecting the works of João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva and Erika Verzutti, with their skeletal, rigid features. Alexandre da Cunha, Edgard de Souza, Ernesto Neto and Sergej Jensen use textile elements as a starting point to expand space through surface tension. With irregular cutouts in an MDF surface, Alexandre Canonico intervenes on blank areas with rhythmic accents. Similarly, the concrete pieces by Rivane Neuenschwander, negative molded holes, are distributed throughout the exhibition space like a punctuation system. In the sculptures by Iran do Espírito Santo and Jac Leirner, empty zones radiate energy that keeps the works on the brink of rupturing, just as the reliefs by Valeska Soares retain the imprints of evaporated human gestures.