Corpo-a-Corpo III Exhibition Cycle

III Exhibition Cycle is 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. Curators Claudio Cretti and Tetê Lian highlight the relevance of the collection, composed of more than 500 works, including sound pieces, box-objects, motorized sculptures, experimental publications, and artist books—works that demand a different sense of time within the exhibition space. Project 280x1020 hosts the exhibition “Corpo-a-Corpo” [Body-to-Body], exploring the presence of the body in contemporary production, where lived experiences are shaped by sociocultural contexts. With a critical text by Giovanna Bragaglia, the exhibition gathers works by Acelino Sales – MAHKU (Rio Jordão, 1975), Alex Cerveny (São Paulo, 1963), Bárbara Wagner (Brasília, 1980), Hudinilson Jr. (1957–2013), Regina Parra (São Paulo, 1984), among others. The photo series Brasília Teimosa (2008) by Wagner, for instance, presents the result of a two-year documentation of a Recife neighborhood where residents gathered on Sundays with friends and family to bathe, eat, drink, and enjoy the day by the sea. The work captures gestures of celebration and pleasure as a form of collective affirmation, while also investigating the social dynamics of a community consistently pushed to the margins.