Agrade Camíz: Nome Próprio
A Gentil Carioca is pleased to present Nome Próprio, Agrade Camíz’s solo exhibition at the gallery in Rio de Janeiro.
In the accompanying critical text, Larry Ossei-Mensah writes: “for Agrade Camíz, painting is a way of thinking through what remains.” Her practice “carries memory, intuition, labor, and lived experience without attempting to hold them in place.” It begins with what has been absorbed over time: “the streets and domestic environments of Jacaré, the neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro where she grew up; the architecture and contradictions of the city’s suburbs; and the experience of moving between houses, streets, buses, yards, portals, gates, and walls.”
Nome Próprio, Portuguese for “proper name” or “given name,” introduces a question of naming and knowing. A name can identify someone without ever containing “the complexity of who they are.” Camíz’s paintings inhabit this same gap, “offering points of recognition without giving themselves over entirely to certainty.”
