From flying to breathing nostrils, wide arms, messages in the wind
with artists Alberto Pitta, Almeida da Silva, Amorí, Aun Helden, Babi Mello, Bertô, biarritzzz, Boni Gattai, Brendy Xavier, Bruna Kury, Caio Rosa, Crislaine Tavares, Gabriel Massan, George Teles, Igi Lola Ayedun, Irmãs de Pau, Kelton Campos Fausto, Kulumyn Açú, Laís Amaral, Manauara Clandestina, Mariana Rocha, Marlon Amaro, Mayara Velozo, Mestre Didi, M0XC4, Rafaela Kennedy, Caroline Ricca Lee, Rainha F, Samara Paiva, Samuel Alves de Jesus, Sidney Amaral, Wisrah Villefort, José Adário (Zé Diabo), Renan Aguena, Zumvi Arquivo Fotográfico.
Curated by Guilherme Teixeira and Nathalia Grilo.
February 4 - March 18, 2023
HOA Gallery
Rua Brigadeiro Galvão, 480
São Paulo, Brazil
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José Adario (Zé Diabo)
Sem título, 2020
Ferro
81 x 50 x 17 cm
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Igi Lola Ayedun
MANIFESTO DA RECUSA I, 2023
Instalação
Almeida da Silva
Portal, vórtice ou janela 32, 2023
White glue and light color pigment
103 x 181 cm
Irmãs de Pau
SHAMBARALAI, 2022
Vídeo, 4:33 min
Amorí
Untitled, 2023
Iron, wood and latex
100 x 22 x 20 cm
Alberto Pitta
Coracão do Rei Caçador (from the series "Mariwô"), 2023
Painting and silkscreen on canvas.
160 x 159 cm
Aun Helden
Eternidade, 2022
Video, 11:21 min
Bertô
Graça/Grace, 2022
Oil on linen
110 x 85 cm
Bruna Kury
MUERTE A LA POLICIA DEL GENERO!, 2022
Print on canvas
1,80 x 2,57 m
biarritzzz
DANÇA DE IKU (IKU'S DANCE), 2021
Digital print on translucent fabric, acrylic.
150 x 150 cm
Brendy Xavier
malOakleyra, 2022
Oakley Rest flip flop and tênis Oakley Turlock Low attached by nails
11 x 34 x 11 cm
Caroline Ricca Lee
Constelação de um Complexo II, 2021
Mixed media/assemblage
150 x 50 x 40 cm
Crislaine Tavares
Vestido de Correntes, 2019
Steel chains, vinyl dress and satin ribbon
100 x 30 cm
Babi Mello
Transmasculinidade Sensível (Série EDPDT – Estudo de Processos de Transição), 2020
Vídeoperformance, 10:36 min.
Boni Gattai (estilara)
"Arrows of my Ways"
Vídeo performance renderizada e editada em tempo real, transmitida ao vivo em 26 de novembro de 2021, com trilha sonora construída ao vivo por Charlie Noir.
9 min
George Teles
Untitled (Lamber com os olhos os contornos series), 2022
Print and rust on overlaid glass (monotype).
120 x 100 cm (each)
Kulumyn Açú
a comunidade desperta, 2023
Mixed media on cotton fabric
132cm x 116cm
Kelton Campos Fausto
SÉRIE QUANDO TUDO TERRA ERA, 2022
Mixed media on canvas
150 x 165 cm
Lais Amaral
Untitled (Bença em cima de bença series), 2023
Acrylic on canvas
160 x 140 cm
Wisrah Villefort
Given, 2022
A set of objects given to the artist by curators and other artists.
Materials and dimensions variable.
Wisrah Villefort
Given, 2022 (score detail)
A set of objects given to the artist by curators and other artists.
Materials and dimensions variable.
Marlon Amaro
A place where a garden never grows, 2022
Oil on canvas
153 x 123 cm
Manauara Clandestina
Sem título, Balaclava series, 2022
Fabric cap with appliqués and concrete base
156 x 40 x 40 cm
Mariana Rocha
Sem título, 2022
Acrylic paint, oil stick and oil pastel on canvas
164 x 107 cm
Mayara Velozo
Série Co-construções de um Imaginário Possível de Sentir, 2020–2021
Upholstery fabric sewing
2 x 2,5 m
M0XC4
Quebrando vínculos, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
115 x 160 cm
Micaela Cyrino
ontem Anastacia, 2019
Litograph on linen and embroidery
50 x 40 cm
RAINHA F.
ENLACE DE SOLITUDE, 2019
Photo performance; digital photography, printing on cotton paper with mineral pigment
70 x 47 cm
Rafaela Kennedy
Dandara, 2019
Digital photography, printing on cotton paper with mineral pigment
10 x 105 cm
Samuel Alves de Jesus
Colisão, 2023
Digital print and acrylic paint on canvas
3 x 3 m
Samuel Alves de Jesus
Colisão, 2023 (back detail)
Digital print and acrylic paint on canvas
3 x 3 m
Renan Aguena
Vendaval de Axé, 2022
Collage
180 x 180 cm
Gabriel Massan
Estação Estranha (Strange Station), 2022
Animação 3D, 0:20 min, cor, sem som, em loop
3840 x 2160 px
Caio Rosa1890, Sempre Viva, 2022
Drawing on photography with c-print manual enlargement
56,5 x 84 cm
Samara Paiva
O peso de tudo, 2022
Óleo sobre tela
60 x 60 cm
All images courtesy and copyright of the artists and gallery. Photos by Wallace Domingues.
Heading into its third year of activities, HOA Galeria inaugurates a new exhibition space in the center of São Paulo.
Founded in 2020 by the artist Igi Lola Ayedun, HOA - the first black-ownedgallery in the history of Brazilian art, opens to the public the doors of its new exhibition space in the central region of São Paulo in February. Located between the neighborhoods of Santa Cecília and Barra Funda,
with 940m2 divided between two floors, the new gallery headquarters intends to host several contemporary art programs such as exhibitions, performances, meetings, courses, seminars, publication launches and cultural activities focused on the production of artists from the global majority and/or part of LGBTQIA+ communities through a decolonial perspective.
“Since the foundation of HOA, I feel that we are building a new step each year with a lot of international visibility, but being able to consolidate a structure in Brazil capable of relating directly with the public in an independent way is one of our greatest victories in this path.” , says Igi Lola Ayedun — owner/CEO of the organization — when asked about the importance of this inauguration for her home country. Over these three years HOA has built commercial and institutional support around the world, accounting for exhibitions, projects and partnerships in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, New York, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Marrakech, Madrid and Milan.
Space activations will happen monthly, presenting the works of represented artists, residents and guests with a focus on intercontinental connections. “It is very important to build cultural dialogues with artists from Africa, Asia and other Latin American countries so that we can transform these exhibitions into something accessible to young people from all over São Paulo's outskirts. Then we can not only inspire, but also participate in the construction of the critical thinking of the next generations of young people who identify with these narratives.”, is what Lucas Andrade — actor, filmmaker and artistic director of HOA advocates.
For the opening month, with the support of Soho House Global and Beck’s, the gallery presents its program with the group exhibition “From flying to breathing nostrils, wide arms, messages to the wind.” curated by Guilherme Teixeira and Nathalia Grilo, whose title revisits the first HOA presentation that took place at SP-Arte Online during the COVID-19 pandemic. The exhibition is dedicated to the manifesto of a decolonial perspective in contemporary art that permeates identity to discuss possibilities of existence, building a look at radical culture in the local scenario, expanding territories that cross its subjectivities. Bringing together works by artists who weave experiences through abstract and figurative works that explore ancestry, present and future through the works of 30 artists from the southeast, midwest, north and northeast regions of Brazil. Less than a hundred meters from Minhocão, the center of São Paulo gains yet another center of cultural initiatives for a more honest, more inclusive and diverse future.