For the 2025 ArPA fair, Galeria Leme presents works by artists Germana Monte-Mór and Marcia de Moraes. While approaching visual expression through distinct pathways, both artists intensely explore the physicality of gesture, the body as a symbolic territory, and the tension between control and fluidity. In Fendas e Buracos, Germana Monte-Mór transforms the medium into a living surface. Cuts, overlays, and textures reinvent the canvas as skin, creating space for organic forms that emerge like signs of a world in constant turmoil. Her compositions are invitations to presence—where color gains volume and shadow, thickness.
Marcia de Moraes’ drawings, on the other hand, evoke psychic whirlpools. With colored pencils and an almost choreographic precision, the artist creates sensory maps in which gestures, vibrant colors, and forms resonate in sync with the body—both the one creating and the one observing. In her work, color is living matter: it pulses, shifts, and transforms. The dialogue between these two artists offers a dense and sensitive experience, where the gaze is enveloped by layers, rhythms, and graphic breaths that invite immersion into the limits and potential of contemporary visual language.
