ArPa 2026

Luciana Brito Galeria and Galeria Estação are pleased to announce their collaborative booth at the 2026 edition of ArPa. For the occasion, Luciana Brito Galeria is presenting a special selection of paintings by Gabriela Machado (b. 1960, Rio de Janeiro) alongside new sculptures by Estúdio Campana (Fernando Campana, 1961–2022; Humberto Campana, b. 1953, São Paulo). They are shown in dialogue with the works that Galeria Estação is presenting, by Santídio Pereira (b. 1996, Piauí) and André Barion (b. 1996, São Paulo). Bringing together different generations, repertoires, and visual languages, the selection proposed by the two galleries highlights multiple approaches to landscape in contemporary art, exploring it not only as a depiction of the natural world, but also as a symbolic, affective, and cultural territory, shaped by the distinct ways in which these artists perceive, inhabit, and reimagine their surroundings.

In this group of paintings – several of which were recently shown in her solo exhibition Ainda Bem, Atravessei as Nuvens at Luciana Brito Galeria – Gabriela Machado weaves together fragments of stories, memories, and landscapes observed in her travels and in everyday life. These seemingly ordinary moments gain density and poetic force as the artist reinterprets them, recording not only scenes, but also the chromatic atmospheres and sensations that pass through her experience. The sculptures by Estúdio Campana, made in materials such as glass and rope, evoke organic forms that seem to hover between nature and imagination, as if surfacing from Gabriela Machado’s own pictorial universe. In both bodies of work, manual practice serves as a structuring principle, drawing painting and sculpture into a shared field where matter, rhythm, and sensory experience intertwine. In the works by Estúdio Campana, the Brazilian popular imagination – expressed through color, material, and form – is reconfigured into vivid, dynamic compositions that affirm design as a space for experimentation, exchange, and transformation.

The work of Santídio Pereira and André Barion likewise transforms landscape into a sensory experience through an exploration of its formal qualities. Santídio Pereira creates compositions marked by material restraint, silence, and contemplation, bringing nature, memory, and spirituality into proximity through woodcut, drawing, and painting. André Barion, in turn, constructs organic, fragmented surfaces from fabric, stitching, and layered overlays, producing works that move between the vegetal, the bodily, and the abstract. For both artists, matter takes center stage: carved wood and sewn textiles preserve the traces of gesture, time, and transformation. Working through contemporary procedures, each artist revisits Brazilian material traditions while opening up a dialogue between restraint and expansion, emptiness and proliferation – one in which landscape no longer operates as a description, but emerges instead as a poetic and perceptual field.