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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Agrade Camíz, Grains de beauté perpétuels, 2025

Agrade Camíz

Grains de beauté perpétuels, 2025
acrílica, giz pastel oleoso e bastão de óleo sobre tela
[acrylic, oil pastel and oil stick on canvas]
190 x 800 x 4 cm políptico
190 x 160 x 4 cm cada
[74 3/4 x 315 x 1 5/8 in polyptych
74 3/4 x 63 x 1 5/8 in each]
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Buscando dissecar o banal, Agrade Camíz revela camadas profundas e quase secretas por meio de composições que transitam entre figurações, abstrações e geometrias, tensionando narrativas visuais estabelecidas. Utilizando signos das...
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Buscando dissecar o banal, Agrade Camíz revela camadas profundas e quase secretas por meio de composições que transitam entre figurações, abstrações e geometrias, tensionando narrativas visuais estabelecidas. Utilizando signos das habitações populares, ela redefine espaços e conceitos, criando novos lugares possíveis.

Em Grains de beauté perpétuels, a artista tece um campo sensível onde o detalhe se torna paisagem e o acúmulo se transforma em linguagem. Como pintando com fragmentos de tempo e memória, Agrade acende uma pele expandida, vibrante, marcada e encantada, que pulsa entre o urbano e o sagrado.
O título, expressão francesa para “sinais de beleza perpétuos” , faz referência às pintas sobre a pele, aquelas pequenas inscrições que o tempo grava no corpo, entre a proteção e o feitiço. Aqui, ganham escala e potência, como sinais de uma cartografia íntima e contínua.

A composição, marcada por ritmos visuais quase musicais, transita entre o íntimo e o monumental. Cada traço, célula, rachadura ou veia parece conter um vestígio de território e corpo, confundindo arquitetura e mapa com ficção.

Essa obra reitera a densidade da prática da artista, onde o gesto pictórico é também uma arqueologia das camadas invisíveis que sustentam o cotidiano, em sua beleza, sua dor, sua eternidade inventada.



[Seeking to dissect the mundane, Agrade Camíz reveals deep and almost secret layers through compositions that shift between figuration, abstraction and geometry, challenging established visual narratives. Using signs of popular
housing, she redefines spaces and concepts, creating new possible places.

In "Grains de beauté perpétuels", the artist weaves a sensitive field where detail becomes landscape and accumulation becomes language. As if painting with fragments of time and memory, Agrade ignites an expanded, vibrant, marked and enchanted skin that pulsates between the urban and the sacred.
The title, a French expression for “perpetual signs of beauty,” refers to the spots on the skin, those small inscriptions that time engraves on the body, between protection and spell. Here, they gain scale and power, as signs of an intimate and continuous cartography.

The composition, marked by almost musical visual rhythms, moves between the intimate and the monumental. Each stroke, cell, crack, or vein seems to contain a trace of territory and body, blurring architecture and map with fiction.

This work reiterates the density of the artist's practice, where the pictorial gesture is also an archaeology of the invisible layers that sustain everyday life, in its beauty, its pain, its invented eternity.]
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