For SP–Arte Rotas 2025, Gomide&Co is pleased to present a dialogue between the works of Teresinha Soares (Araxá, MG, 1927) and Valeska Soares (Belo Horizonte, MG, 1957), bringing together two artists from different generations of the same family whose practices—though quite distinct—explore tensions around themes such as the body, intimacy, and desire.
The selection includes key series produced by Teresinha Soares in the late 1960s, shown in dialogue with the installation Unhinged (2017) by Valeska Soares. Among Teresinha’s works are silkscreens from the series Pernas pra que te quero (1970), paintings from A mulher em 10 parágrafos (1968), and silkscreen panels from Eurótica (1970), in which sensual and fragmented forms—legs, breasts, hands, mouths, and silhouettes—compose images that celebrate erotic freedom and challenge the social and moral conventions of Brazil’s patriarchal order at the time. These works point to a visuality in which the body is dismantled and reconstructed—between erasure and reconstitution, desire and power—and will be presented in an environment shaped by Valeska’s installation, composed of bed headboards joined with hinges to form an open labyrinth that challenges notions of front and back and proposes a spatial experience that is both sensorial and unstable.
Although they belong to different generations and contexts, Teresinha Soares and Valeska Soares establish meaningful parallels in their artistic practices, particularly in the way they address memory, affect, and impulses. By dismantling fixed boundaries—between body and object, art and life, function and form—the artists construct visual universes that destabilize normative narratives and activate the sensorial as a political dimension.
