Gringo à Brasileira

Brazil­ian art is can­ni­bal­is­tic. In Gringo à Brasileira, Patrí­cia Colmen­ero revis­its colo­nial images of Brazil to devour, trans­form, and return them through an anthro­pophag­ic ges­ture. Bor­row­ing the lan­guage of recipes, the exhi­bi­tion pre­pares the for­eign gaze ​“Brazil­ian style”: digest­ed, mixed, con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed, and rein­vent­ed. Fig­ures once seen as exot­ic, mon­strous, or avail­able for visu­al con­sump­tion now look back, turn­ing por­trai­ture into con­fronta­tion and the colo­nial archive into liv­ing matter.

Solo show by Patrí­cia Colmenero

Curat­ed by Luisa Mantelli