MaPa e Dobra* invites to the exhibition Latitude Tropical.
Rua Costa, 31 - São Paulo, Brazil.
In Latitude Tropical, pre-Columbian art and modern Latin American art converge to challenge and redefine our perceptions. This exhibition is an invitation to reflect on the cultural identity of our continent, offering a perspective on the continuities and influences that shape local artistic production, with geometry as its symbolic and narrative axis.
Sachiko Koshikoku presents paintings and pre-Columbian textile fragments arranged in compositions that engage with Andean cosmologies and non-linear temporalities. The preserved and juxtaposed weaves and remnants evoke relationships between ruin and permanence.
Sara Carone exhibits ceramics crafted using Raku, an ancient Japanese technique. Marked by flaws and cracks, the pieces employ geometry to highlight the artist’s gesture as a sensitive extension of lived experience.
Finally, the presence of Enrico Furio Dominici’s emblematic modernist-line luminaires functions as spatial activation devices, weaving together design, ritual, and narrative within the installation.
The exhibition reaffirms Galeria MaPa’s commitment to propositions that unite poetics and critical thought, bringing together artists from diverse origins and practices as a way to expand the horizons of contemporary reflection. By bringing into dialogue practices that blur the boundaries between art and design, the project positions itself as a curatorial gesture attentive to manifestations of ancestry—particularly within Brazilian Concretism.
By presenting Carone, Dominici, and Koshikoku—artists who share the experience of displacement and migration—the exhibition also proposes a sensitive gaze toward the more complex and profound layers that shape the cultural identities of the continent.