Arorá, Manuela Costa Lima and Thomaz Rosa: Condo Mexico City, Campeche hosting Quadra, Rio de Janeiro - São Paulo

Working across a studio practice that ranges from oil on canvas to colored pencil on paper, and through the use of materials such as iron, silver, pearl, and construction debris, the artist encourages a careful engagement between the viewer and the work, grounded in presence and mystery. In painting, Arorá develops a visual language that privileges atmosphere and texture over figuration, often evading clear identification. Through layered brushstrokes and accumulated surfaces, rarefied images emerge—evoking nature, metamorphic landscapes, and cosmic environments. In her installations and sculptures, she explores subtle balances and material properties, activating correspondences and tensions between spatial occupation and transformation.

Thomaz Rosa develops his practice through an expanded investigation of painting, in which he articulates signs drawn from both official and unofficial histories of art. By revisiting procedures associated with Pop and modern art, the artist engages the image as a site of construction and instability, where error and accident operate as constitutive forces in tension with meticulously calculated compositional structures.

His works oscillate between an abundance of visual information and material restraint, establishing surfaces that function as psychic environments—spaces in which interior and exterior coexist in friction. By incorporating three-dimensional elements into painting, Rosa displaces the boundaries between the pictorial plane and objecthood, producing compositions that move between geometric abstraction, representational simulations, and interventions in the materiality of the image itself. Within this dynamic, his exhibitions often unfold as constellations of interrelated parts, where multiple layers of meaning emerge through the relationships between works.