“In case of a clash, support with confrontation - Grid”

The installations, photographs and objects created by the artist, who also holds a PhD in geology, deconstruct common notions of function and use in architecture, and in the contents of domestic and public spaces. Winner of the Funarte Contemporary Art Award in 2012, Rommulo Conceição also participated in the 6th and 8th editions of the Mercosul Biennial. His work is part of the collection of the Ado Malagoli Museum of Contemporary Art of Rio Grande do Sul, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rio Grande do Sul (MAC-RS), both in Porto Alegre; and the Museum of Contemporary Art of São Paulo (MAC-USP).

Rommulo Conceição's first solo and group exhibitions took place in the late 1990s. In the work "A materialização da impossibilidade" (The materialization of impossibility), from 2000, Rommulo intervened in the elevator of the Casa de Cultura Mário Quintana, developing eight different stages of spatial perception, playing with temporal changes or notions of weight and volume. "Quarto-cozinha" (2005), "Uma mesa e quatro cadeiras" (A table and four chairs) (2006/07), or "Entre" (2011) are examples of installations or objects in which the artist challenges the common sense about architectural use. Sometimes, the artist's work also unfolds in series of photographs that revisit or deconstruct spaces, such as "Cronotopo" (2004) and "Através, cuidado" (2013).

Curator Carla Zaccagnini believes that Rommulo’s works “always seem to propose a spatial disfiguration that alters the course of time. The artist thus reveals the way in which these two human methods of organizing the world and its transformations are linked by our perception and understanding of them. There is a game of breaking expectations that strains our relationship with reality and positions us in the middle of a narrative that we do not understand.”