FOUR ARTISTS IN THE FIRST BRAZILIAN PAVILION AT THE GWANGJU BIENNALE

Marcela Cantuária (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1991), Mariana Rocha (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1988), Vinicius Gerheim (Minas Gerais, Brasil, 1992) y Vivian Caccuri (São Paulo, Brazil, 1986), artists of the gallery A Gentil Carioca, take part in the 16th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea. They are featured in Devorações do Amanhã – Brasil em Rebento (Devourings of Tomorrow – Brazil Sprouting), the exhibition that inaugurated the first Brazilian Pavilion in the history of the Biennale.

The show is curated by Aldones Nino and Bruna Levi. It brings together artists from different generations around a critical perspective on contemporary Brazil, understood as a territory in constant construction. Departing from the concepts of devoração (devouring) and rebento (sprout), the project addresses processes of transformation, continuity, and creation, articulating the different languages, forms of knowledge, and experiences that run through Brazilian artistic production.

Within the project, Vinicius Gerheim presents Mill (2026), a work developed during his participation in Tropismo, a residency program that is part of the Brazilian Pavilion and brings together artists and researchers around different perspectives on contemporary Brazil.

The Biennale is grounded in the premise that change is not a destination but a method: a continuous process through which bodies, perceptions, matter, and relationships are reorganized. From this perspective, it understands artistic practice as a space of persistence and experimentation, where the repetition of gestures, actions, and practices produces difference and allows new forms of life to emerge. In this context, the exhibition brings together a range of perspectives from Brazilian contemporary art to envision, through the lens of anthropophagic thought, modes of transformation and possible futures.

Established in 1995, the Gwangju Biennale is Asia’s oldest contemporary art biennial. Its 16th edition, under the artistic direction of Ho Tzu Nyen, is titled You Must Change Your Life and brings together artists from different contexts around the idea of transformation as an ongoing process.

Devorações do Amanhã – Brasil em Rebento is on view at the Brazilian Pavilion of the 16th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea, until November 15, 2026.