São Paulo, Brazil, 1959

Adriana Rocha
Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation
São Paulo, Brazil
Adriana Rocha was born, lives and works in the city of São Paulo. Your painting
welcomes hybrid experiences with photography and drawing in the search for explorations in
Themes
such as memory, historical and environmental erasures and their resulting constructions of
landscapes. With more than twenty solo exhibitions in Brazil and abroad, his production
It includes collections from institutions such as the FAAP Museum of Brazilian Art, Itaú Cultural,
Museum of Latin American Art and the Itamaraty and Planalto Palaces

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“In my production, I have been dealing with the concept of erasing memory, being the
painting itself, consisting of a continuous movement of construction and destruction. Isso
occurs not as a single or dramatic gesture, but as an accumulative process: layers that
overlap, glazes that cloud the image, areas where the paint appears to have been
interrupted or partially removed. I think of it as a rewrite, where the image
The rest, reconstructed, reflects this collage of times.
In this sense, the deletion operates on the very idea of representation. Painting starts
be dealing with what escapes stable form.
In the drawings, this instability is reflected in the absence of a spatial reference that
offers an anchor point when looking

at.