Balada para um espectro III Exhibition Cycle

The III Exhibition Cycleis built from the private collection of Regina Pinho de Almeida, founder and executive director of the Casa, and is guided by the plurality of languages and media represented in the collection, proposing a rupture of conventional literary, temporal, and audio structures.

The Cabinet is dedicated to boxes and books in “Balada para um espectro” [Ballad for a Specter], with a critical text by Ella Pacheco. The exhibition reflects on the concept of the collection, featuring works that extend beyond the two-dimensional plane. The selection includes artists such as Augusto de Campos (São Paulo, 1931), Cildo Meireles (Rio de Janeiro, 1948), Julio Plaza (1938–2003), Edith Derdyk (São Paulo, 1955), Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), and Milton Marques (Brasília, 1971).

The historical multiple Boîte-en-Valise (1935–41, facsimile), by Marcel Duchamp, is part of the collection and gathers 68 works by the French artist in a foldable object presenting scaled reproductions of earlier paintings and sculptures, embodying the concept of the ready-made. Cildo Meireles is represented with Camelô (1998), inspired by childhood memories of trips with his family to Rio de Janeiro. Observing street vendors selling seemingly insignificant objects—such as pins and fishbones—the artist reflects on survival dynamics and the extensive labor chain behind such items.