Point of No Return Clarissa Tossin

 More than just portraying the climate crisis, Clarissa Tossin (Porto Alegre, 1973) incorporates waste, objects, and materials into her work that bear witness to environmental collapse. On view from October 10 to February 1, 2026, this is the artist’s first solo exhibition in a Brazilian museum.

Curated by Adriano Pedrosa, artistic director at MASP, and Guilherme Giufrida, assistant curator at MASP, the exhibition was conceived as a large immersive installation. “The feeling is that the museum has flooded and we have put together the exhibition with what was left to display. It is as if the public were visiting a post-apocalyptic museum. Clarissa is a contemporary, conceptual artist. She has many works on a real scale, one to one, resulting in an exhibition with a very immersive dimension,” says Guilherme Giufrida.

The exhibition brings together reflections on environmental disasters that struck Porto Alegre, the artist’s birthplace, and Los Angeles, in the United States, where she currently lives. Commissioned by MASP, the work Dead Pool (2025) was made with paint produced from soil from three locations that suffered from flooding in Rio Grande do Sul: Cidade Baixa, Sarandi, and Eldorado do Sul. The intervention, designed for the walls of the exhibition gallery, recreates the horizontal marks of mud that were left on the buildings after the floods. In addition to recalling the massive flooding that took over the state of Rio Grande do Sul in May 2024 — the same period when research for this exhibition began — the installation also refers to the traces left in Mariana in 2015 and Brumadinho in 2019.