Stuck Rhyme
2026
Barrão
Rima Colada [Stuck Rhyme], a book celebrating four decades of artist Barrão's career, showcases an artistic practice marked by intuition and the interplay between languages such as sculpture, drawing, watercolor, installation, sound, and performance. Guided by procedures akin to bricolage, his work is constructed through the transformation of everyday elements, grouping and recombining recognizable objects extracted from our domestic and urban universe. The book's title, a recurring expression in his work, summarizes this logic: rhyme as approximation, the encounter of things that, when glued together, begin to coexist.
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Arte Bra Yhuri Cruz
2026Automatica Edições
Arte Bra Yhuri Cruz is the first book published about his work. Featuring an unpublished essay by Hélio Menezes and texts by Pollyana Quintella, Marcelo Campos, and Vinícius da Silva, the publication includes an interview, a chronology, and images of the artist's scenes and works. Born in Olaria, Rio de Janeiro, in 1991, Yhuri Cruz has built an artistic and dramaturgical practice that discusses historical archives, fictions, and fabulations of the Black diaspora in Brazil and the world, expanding across sculpture, stage performances, and film.
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T R A M A
– Eleonora Fabião
2025
Eleonora Fabião
In the book T R A M A, Eleonora Fabião presents the process and reflections of the Public Sector Artistic Residency (RASP), which brought together public servants from different areas of the Rio de Janeiro City Hall in encounters permeated by art, the body, and political imagination. Throughout 2023, the artist promoted meetings in spaces of important aesthetic-social movements in the city, proposing the collective construction of thoughts and propositions about public service, public affairs, and the common good. The publication records an experience of listening, sharing, and differences in alliance, in which symbolic practices and everyday rituals opened paths to imagine other ways of inhabiting, caring for, and transforming the city.
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Belojardim Artist in Residence — Camila Sposati
2023
Camila Sposati
This publication, containing texts and images, provides an account of the Belojardim Cycle of Art Exhibitions and Artist in Residence Program, which began in 2017 in a municipality located 180 km from Recife. The program’s third guest artist, for the 2019-2021 edition was Camila Sposati (São Paulo, 1972). Curated by Cristiana Tejo and Kiki Mazzucchelli and produced by Automatica, the aim of the program was to develop a long-term proposal for the Agreste region of the Brazilian State of Pernambuco to encourage discussion of the social and cultural significance of the term Northeast and role the cultural legacy of this region can play in today’s world, by way of artist projects specially commissioned for the local context. This edition initially adopted a hybrid format and included a group show of work by Sposati and fourteen other artists: ALL Souza, Angelik, Déborah Monteiro, Elaine Lima, Gledson Lamartine, Heligeison Feitosa, Jacy Lima, Jurandex, Maéve Oliveira, Marilia Azevedo, PRKILLA, Rodrigo Valença, Soraya Feitoza, and Thalyta Monteiro. Based on the Legislative Theater of Augusto Boal (1996), Bodies of Phonosophy aimed to combine the physical body with the social. The project focused on exploring the relation between the artworks created and the subjects/bodies that created them, as a way of investigating their potential as mediators between different types of subjectivity and the world. The works produced for the project were shared with the public in the form of a digital exhibition put together in partnership with the artist Rudá Cabral.
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Relicto
2022
Fernando Limberger
With essays by Guilherme Wisnik, Ricardo José Francischetti Garcia and Marcelo Zocchio, “Relict” presents texts and images relating to the exhibition of the same name staged by Fernando Limberger between 2020 and 2021 at Casa da Imagem and Beco do Pinto, in São Paulo. In an archeological exercise that provides an encounter between the viewer and “relicts”—the leftover elements that resist environmental change—the artist creates a tension between urban growth and the obliteration of the history of the city, drawing attention to vestiges in the landscape that bear witness to the continued presence of an era that predates the current urban configuration of São Paulo.
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Raul Mourão — Volume 3
2022
Raul Mourão
Volume 3 is the third edition of Raul Mourão's livro-revista [book-zine]. Organized into chapters that present the highlights of the artist's exhibition career between 2018 and 2022, the publication features critical thinking that establishes an overview of his production in dialogue with aesthetic, social and political issues.
Following on from previous editions, Volume 3 brings together in a multifaceted manner sculptures, paintings, drawings, photos and video frames that made up the main exhibitions integrated by the artist in the last five years. The images accompany texts written by Noemi Jaffe, Bernardo Oliveira, Eucanaã Ferraz, Guilherme Wisnik, Isabel Sanson Portela, Lilia Moritz Schwartz, Tânia Rivera, Laura Lima, Fernanda Lopes and Gustavo Prado.
This edition, which has among its contributors Fred Coelho, Camila Bechelany, João Bandeira and Felipe Scovino, also features an interview with Lenora de Barros about her formation and work as a visual artist and poet, as well as an essay by Laura Lima and Tania Rivera about the work “Balé Literal”.
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Art, the city and heritage: future and past in contemporary poetics
2021
Adriana Nakamuta
This book is designed to accompany the catalogue of images from the exhibition of the same name staged at Oi Futuro Rio de Janeiro between 25 May and 25 July 2021. This group show of previously unseen work, using various formats, supports and media, made an important contribution to the debate on the role of art in building memory and its relation to the territory of the city, in sensory, material and emotional terms.
More than twenty photographs contained in the special supplement and throughout the book provide a photographic record of the project. The articles, which were the result of interdisciplinary research and reflection, cover a full range of aspects of the cultural and artistic heritage of cities and of the actions, history, disputes and conflicts of which they are composed. This helps us to conceive of the city as a sum of spaces built by way of projects and, also, of the importance of social interaction and survival skills that have generated the collective cultural assets that can be regarded as heritage.
The book invites us to reflect on Brazil’s cities and cultural heritage under the inspiration of an exhibition whose main premise was the fluid nature of the concepts of memory and future in contemporary art. It is from this perspective—of the city as cultural heritage—that the authors invite readers to share their research experiences. The book thus reflects the full complexity of issues relating to cities and heritage in the contemporary world.
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Moinho Fluminense: A Memoir
2021
The book Moinho Fluminense: Memória [Moinho Fluminense: A Memoir] presents, first of all, the history of the port and Gamboa area, from the 16th century to the present day. With texts by Augusto Ivan de Freitas Pinheiro, Eliane Canedo, Maria Pace and Piedade Grinberg; and a photo essay by Mauricio Hora, it presents the building, its surroundings and the stories of the people who worked in its origins. The publication brings together stories that happened during the Mill's activities and a description of the building's architectural evolution. This meeting aims to highlight the importance of the Fluminense Mill in the cultural sphere and in the architectural and urban history of Rio de Janeiro. The project was awarded bronze at the Latin American Design Awards 2022.
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ARTE BRA Eleonora Fabião
2021
Eleonora Fabião
ARTE BRA Eleonora Fabião is a travel diary documenting an encounter with the artist, her work and the movement that she has generated. Through the triad of performing, writing, and teaching, Eleonora combines theory and practice, staging actions that transform the human body and the world. Her book Ações/Actions, distributed on the basis of a gift economy, is now available digitally for the first time on the ARTE BRA Collection platform. Featuring reflections by Galciani Neves, Paulo Miyada, and Pablo Assumpção, the project brings together texts and interviews that broaden its artistic and political impact. As Eleonora puts it: “It only makes sense if it’s collective.”
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ARTE BRA Tatiana Altberg
2021
Tatiana Altberg
ARTE BRA Tatiana Altberg is the twelfth publication in the ARTE BRA collection and explores the trajectory of a visual artist whose work spans photography, design, and education. The book features previously unpublished texts by Laura Erber and Raquel Tamaio, along with a chronological overview of Altberg’s projects, including Mão na Lata and Maré at Home. Produced collaboratively, the publication weaves together multiple voices in dialogue with the artist’s most recent experiments. Altberg’s work brings together words, images, and people to expand the role of art as a catalyst for social transformation.
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