Mangará

21 Oct - 24 Oct 2025

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The exhibition is part of the project Alimento Alimenta, developed by Nydia Negromonte during her artistic residency at Casa Mísia (KEF Portugal), in which she considers food as a sociocultural crossroads, based on an investigation into urban gardens on the Belo Horizonte-Lisbon axis.

In Mangará, the Minas Gerais-born artist of Peruvian origin presents a series of gouache paintings of the heart of the banana plant (from the Tupi, mãga'ra*), based on photographs recently taken in banana plantations in Brazil.

 

Based on the observation and reinterpretation of her photographic records, Nydia moves forward in a creative process "that refuses mere representation, moving from mimesis to the opening of a language that asserts its own presence".

The series unfolds from previous investigations, started in 2016, when the artist photographed a banana plantation to understand the pruning known as thinning (desbaste), marked by a genealogical structure of the fruits that spans generations of the plant. Now, in Mangará, this interest returns to the heart of the banana plant, with its scars and memories, in a clear articulation with plant thought.

The exhibition is curated by Filipe Campello and supported by Verso Galeria.

 

* Infopédia / Porto Editora