Exhibition for the 35th São Paulo Biennial 2023 Choreographies of the Impossible / vão

Since the beginning of the design and graphic process of the 35th São Paulo Biennial, Choreographies of the Impossible, we were challenged to think about and through the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion. Designed and built in the 1950s, the building is notoriously known as a work by Oscar Niemeyer; however, it is necessary to say, in collaboration with architects Eduardo Kneese de Mello, Hélio Uchoa, and Zenon Lotufo. The architecture of the Pavilion, marked by the symbolic and representative weight of an era, challenged us to temporarily inscribe a choreography of paths and spaces different, with the purpose of splitting, or at least cracking its monumental character.