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PORTAS VILASECA AT SP-ARTE ROTAS 2025
PORTAS VILASECA NA SP-ARTE ROTAS 2025
08.05.2025

Portas Vilaseca is pleased to present three artists from its programme at Sp-Arte Rotas 2025: Nádia Taquary (Bahia, 1967), Kika Carvalho (Espírito Santo, 1992), and Silvana Mendes (Maranhão, 1991). Through visual languages that combine painting, sculpture, and collage, their works explore colour, composition, and form to evoke the power of memory and the strength of materiality.

Anchored in Nádia Taquary’s monumental practice, our booth (A06) highlights the artist’s work in re-signifying Afro-Brazilian jewellery as an archive of resistance and feminine power. Her sculptures and watercolours allow the silenced history of Black women to flow through, portraying them as protagonists of their own freedom and transforming adornments into monuments of resilience and identity. At the same time, fiction weaves through and enriches her poetics, intertwining ancestral narratives that give rise to new symbolisms and allegories.

In dialogue with Taquary, the artistic trajectory of Silvana Mendes delves into the intricate dimensions of identity and historical revisionism. Through her collages, the artist investigates the nuances of Brazilian history, revealing forgotten narratives and challenging hegemonic representations of Blackness as crystallised in archives.

Kika Carvalho, in turn, uses a singular palette to recover personal and collective memories of Black identity, imbuing these narratives with the preciousness of colour – primarily blue, which in past material cultures such as the Egyptian, was considered among the most valuable. Her paintings explore pictorial qualities as a means to initiate new states of perception and remembrance, creating meditative and sensitive atmospheres that engage with both the body and time.

By inviting the audience to engage with these reconstructed histories and with the possibilities of visual language and materiality, the trio presented by Portas Vilaseca at Sp-Arte Rotas 2025 fosters a sensitive re-articulation of Afro-Brazilian cultures through works in which the artistic gesture is configured as a space for re-signification and symbolic displacement.

We look forward to welcoming you all from 27 to 31 August at Arca, in São Paulo.

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Featured image: Detail of Silvana Mendes’ work “Untitled” (2025), hand collage and acrylic on Hahnemühle 425g paper, 36 x 48 cm.

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Silvana Mendes
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Nádia Taquary
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Kika Carvalho