“Four Rooms”

Mano Penalva's work is based on the study of material culture, changes in behavior and the effects of globalization. His production is deliberately non-representative, allowing the materials to dictate the form and unite based on the desire to exist in the world. Based on the relationship between retail sales strategies, his experiences of collecting and the observation of the field that moves between the House and the Street, the artist works with different media such as painting, sculpture, photography, video and installation, always in search of the poetry obtained by displacing objects from their everyday context. Thus, one can recognize a breaking down of borders and a globalized language based on the nature of the materials and objects that make up his works, whether in the appropriation of a familiar national iconography or in the juxtaposition of this with other iconographies from different parts of the world, weaving together discourses of a socio-philosophical nature that are evidenced by the forms of the objects created. Penalva's works highlight the idea that the exponential proliferation of objects and images is not intended to train perception or consciousness, but insists on merging us with them.

Among his solo exhibitions are: " House on the Floor", Portas Vilaseca Gallery (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2019); " Agreement", Central Gallery (São Paulo, Brazil, 2019); " Hasta Tepito", B[X] Gallery (Brooklyn, NY, 2018); " Requebra", Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collection (Brussels, Belgium, 2018); " TRUK(?)", Soma Gallery (Curitiba, PR, 2018); " Proyecto para Monumento", Cultural Passport (Mexico City, MX, 2017); " Andejos", Ribeirão Preto Art Museum (Ribeirão Preto, SP, 2017); " Southern State", Camelódromo (Porto Alegre, RS, 2017); " Balneário", Central Gallery (São Paulo, SP, 2016); " Displacement", Which House (São Paulo, SP, 2015), as part of the " Same Place Project" from the Garden of Hermes.