Co/Respondences: Brazil and Abroad

Amelia Toledo, Asuka Anastacia Ogawa, Antonio Dias, Brígida Baltar, Cristina Canale, Daniel Buren, Fabio Miguez, Jannis Kounellis, Jonathas de Andrade, John Zurier, Margot Bergman, Paulo Bruscky, Robert Filliou, Sergio Sister, Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe

Galeria Nara Roesler New York is pleased to present Co/Respondences: Brazil and Abroad, a group show curated by Luis Pérez-Oramas where works by major Brazilian artists represented by Nara Roesler Gallery is in dialogue vis-à-vis works by significant international artists not necessarily linked to Brazil, stressing their mutual resonance -either based on formal, structural, thematic, biographical or historical rationale.

Through juxtapositions of works carefully selected, featuring at the same time resemblance and difference –even if minimal– the show aims to stress that art is, and it has always been, global as it stands as a field of unlimited and always ever potential affinities, beyond contexts and chronologies.

Prioritizing affinity over genealogy, Co/Respondences: Brazil and Abroad is an exercise of savage mind (pensée sauvage). It is so by embodying the fact that all thinking possess a "savage potentiality", notably when freed from the utilitarian necessity of producing a capitalizing result, allowing the visibility of "tiny intervals, brief periodicities, rhapsodic repetitions, analogic models'' between differential works– to borrow the words from anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro.