EXHIBITION AT MAM SÃO PAULO REFLECTS ON WHAT IS ELEMENTARY WHEN RELATING TO OTHERS

The Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo presents the exhibition Elementar: Fazer Junto (Elementary: Making It Together), a collective work that proposes reflections on what is essential when establishing a relationship with others. The exhibit is curated by Valquíria Prates, guest curator, Mirela Estelles, the museum's educational coordinator, and Cauê Alves, MAM's head curator, and brings to the public the intersection between the artistic and educational collections of the museum.

More than 70 modern and contemporary artworks from MAM's collection are presented, as well as poetic experiments carried out by the educational department. The exhibition invites the audience to think about the barriers to be broken in order to accomplish things together, whether they are social, cultural, political or geographical, among others, in an exercise to reflect on matters such as otherness and freedom.

Considering the idea of what is "elementary", the curatorship departed from the four basic nature elements to select the artwork present in the exhibition. This way, different works from the MAM’s collection dialogue in different ways, from painting to intervention, to water, fire, earth and air, either in their materiality or in a symbolic way.

Elementar: Fazer Junto is composed of works by Anna Bella Geiger,  Artur Lescher, Caio Reisewitz, Claudia Andujar, Chelpa Ferro –collective founded by artists Luiz Zerbini, Barrão e Sergio Mekler –, collective OPAVIVARÁ, Dora Longo Bahia, Edouard Fraipont & Cildo Meireles, Fausto Chermont, Frans Krajcberg, Franz Weissmann, German Lorca, Jac Leirner, Jarbas Lopes, José Leonilson, Julia Amaral, Laura Vinci, Leda Catunda, Lia Menna Barreto, Luiz Braga, Mabe Bethônico, Marcia Xavier, Marcius Galan, Marcos Piffer, Marcelo Cidade, Marcelo Nitsche, Marcelo Moscheta, Marcelo Zocchio, Maureen Bisilliat, Motta & Lima, Nelson Leirner, Paulo Bruscky, Pedro Motta, Pedro David, Regina Silveira, Rodrigo Andrade, Rodrigo Bueno, Rodrigo Braga, Rodrigo Matheus, Sandra Cinto, Sara Ramo, Shirley Paes Leme, Tarsila do Amaral, Tatiana Blass, Tadeu Jungle, Thomas Farkas and Vulcânica Pokaropa.