The curators, Pablo Lafuente and Raquel Barreto, take the Baía de Guanabara as a starting point, exploring the region where the museum is located through the works of invited artists.
Barrio, who lives on a boat in the Baía de Guanabara, has been developing a series of works since 2018 that take the sea as a catalyst. “(…) the sea emerges as a poetic, challenging, and liberating space… the beginning as the beginning of itself in another stage of life, that is, using the experience resulting from this contact/living in and with the sea to accelerate the idea of a sea that is never the same, for an art that is never the same and never will be, as it carries within itself the moment inherent to each gesture.” – Arthur Barrio
"Artur Barrio e a Física enquanto Arte" is an exercise in experimentation on the properties of water and, at the same time, a reflection on our surroundings, on the processes of degradation to which it is subjected, whether intentional or by omission. Developed from a continuous experience of being in the water and living at sea, the installation includes images and objects that refer to the reality of the Baía de Guanabara and reconstruct part of its flows, which at first may seem abstract, but ultimately show the possibilities of regeneration. The installation continues Barrio's seven decades of work with systems and processes, with the violence present in their structures, and with our ability or inability to identify meanings within them. – Text by Pablo Lafuente.
MAM Rio de Janeiro, from January 25 to June 24, 2025
