Som e Fúria III Exhibition Cycle

The 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.

“Som e Fúria” [Sound and Fury] (Gallery), with a curatorial text by Tetê Lian, employs automation, sound, and movement to explore a form of fury tied to human experience. The title references one of William Faulkner’s (1897–1962) most important novels, published in 1929 and marked by stream of consciousness and non-linear narrative. The expression also derives from a line in Macbeth (1623), by William Shakespeare (1565–1616), describing a state of turmoil, noise, and meaningless rage.

Participating artists include André Komatsu (São Paulo, 1978), Chelpa Ferro, Emmanuel Nassar (Capanema, 1949), Nuno Ramos (São Paulo, 1960), and Mariana Manhães (Niterói, 1977). Highlights include a work from the series Act of… (2013) by Komatsu, which uses construction safety items mounted within frames as both image and support structure, and the work of Nuno Ramos, who sublimates the physical dimension of semantic processes by layering materials.