Siwaju: SPECTRUM

We’re pleased to announce SPECTRUM, Siwaju's solo exhibition at Building 11 of A Gentil Carioca in Rio de Janeiro, opening this Saturday, 24th May, from 6pm to 11pm. The artist's sculptural practice investigates the relationship between time and different ecologies. By reusing pieces of steel — donated, collected and recycled during frequent visits to recycling centres — her works establish a direct link with Brazilian three-dimensional thinking. Her sculptures articulate matter and Cosmos, visible and invisible energies, object and surroundings, sculptural body and space, organising themselves in a spiral temporality, in a constant flow of expansion and retrospection, which activates Afro-diasporic knowledge.

“Interconnected ‘families of works’ unfold in the space, each with its own grammar and gestures, but all traversed by the desire to create zones of interference where past and future, beauty and freedom coexist in creative tension. Like a twenty-first century blacksmith, Siwaju doesn’t shape the steel, but negotiates with its spectres: welded joints appear like stitches between times, the polished surfaces give back disobedient reflections, the whispers of matter, the artist suggests, make us break free from industrial logic.” — points out curator Nathalia Grilo, author of the introductory text for the exhibition, which will run until August 9th, 2025.