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Individual exhibition by Lenora de Barros inaugurates Gomide&Co headquarters on Av. Paulista

The works gathered in “I can’t wait” bring the artist’s vision of our tortuous relationship with time

By Redação

Updated at Mar 2, 2023, 2:34 PM - Submitted at Mar 2, 2023, 2:34 PM

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New Gomide&Co headquarters on Avenida Paulista.

New Gomide&Co headquarters on Avenida Paulista.(Divulgação/)

The new headquarters of Gomide&Co , which takes the gallery to one of the most coveted cultural corridors in São Paulo, Avenida Paulista, will be inaugurated in grand style: with the solo exhibition "Não veja a hora", by Lenora de Barros . The new 600 square meter space is located on the ground floor of the Pink Building and was entirely renovated by the award-winning architects Acayaba + Rosenberg .

About the exhibition


Solo exhibition
(Fernando Laszlo / CASACOR)
“Não veja a hora” brings together twelve works, most of them previously unpublished , that have as a common denominator an elaboration on time. From photographs, videos, sound installations to a transfigured ping-pong table , the artist plays and invites us to play with the relationships between language, temporality and the body. Going beyond the gallery’s exhibition boundaries, those who arrive at the exhibition are greeted from the outside by the work “Não veja a hora” (2023), which states and announces the title of the exhibition through a moving sign . By appropriating an expression used in Brazilian colloquial speech as a kind of ready-made , Lenora provokes the notion of time and how we relate to it.
As a whole, the works gathered in “Não veja a hora” (I can’t wait) explore a burning territory of the present day, that of our tortuous relationship with time . Lenora de Barros knows that, given the conventional ways of measuring time, time always takes more from us than we take from it. To play a trick on time, the artist tries to subvert such conventions and to do so, she puts on stage her poetic repertoire, which uses verbal-visual strategies to address us, combining rigor and humor, other ways of relating to time, time that constitutes the fabric of our lives. At the same time as the opening of the exhibition space, Gomide&Co is also expanding with the arrival of Fabio Frayha , former director of MASP, an administrator specializing in the world of visual arts, who will now work as a partner in the gallery alongside founding partner Thiago Gomide . An art critic, curator and researcher with over 15 years of experience in contemporary art, Luisa Duarte joins the team as artistic director.
Solo exhibition
(Divulgação / CASACOR)

About the artist


Born in 1953 in São Paulo, Lenora de Barros graduated in Linguistics and her first works can be classified as “visual poetry”. In 1983, she published the book Onde Se Vê, a collection of poems constructed as photographic sequences of performative acts. His most important group and solo exhibitions include participation in the 59th Venice Biennale – The Milk of Dreams (Venice, 2022), RETROMEMÓRIA, at MAM-SP – Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (2022), Tools for Utopia: Selected works from the Daros Latinamerica Collection, at Kunstmuseum Bern (Bern, 2020), ISSOÉOSSODISSO, at Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade (São Paulo, 2016), 4th Thessaloníki Biennial of Contemporary Art (Greece, 2013), 11th Lyon Biennial (France, 2011), as well as participation in the 17th, 24th and 30th editions of the São Paulo International Biennial (1983, 1998 and 2012). His work is part of important collections in Brazil and in several countries, including the Hammer Museum (CA, USA), MACBA – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona (Spain), Daros Latinamerica Collection (Switzerland), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Spain), MAM-SP and Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo.