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Fortes D鈥橝loia & Gabriel is pleased to present 鈥楶ulse鈥�, a project specially developed for Frieze London 2020. Unable to install an actual display in London, the gallery has decided to take over the Carpintaria, its Rio de Janeiro venue, as an overseas surrogate for the presentation. The selection of works for 鈥淧ulse鈥� delves into the multiple facets of desire and that which ultimately drives us: the erotic pulse of life. Efrain Almeida, Leda Catunda, Jac Leirner, Rivane Neuenschwander, Janaina Tsch盲pe and Yuli Yamagata are amongst the Brazilian artists who produced new works for the occasion. Important pieces by Alair Gomes, Sergej Jensen, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ernesto Neto, Adriana Varej茫o and B谩rbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca will also be on view.

Visitors in Brazil will be able to engage with the works in person and indulge in the installation, parallel to the viewing room digital format. For those outside Brazil, the gallery will offer guided virtual tours of the exhibition space. As gallery partner Marcia Fortes points out, 鈥渨e are actually hanging this presentation in our Rio venue for the very purpose of pleasure which the works ellicit, a celebration of the physical experience of life and art.鈥�

A central piece to 鈥淧ulse鈥� is Rivane Neuenschwander鈥檚 鈥淭ropics: Damned, Orgasmic and Devoted鈥� (2020), a 4m long continuous drawing depicting  anthropomorphic creatures intertwined in a brutal tug and pull. Phalluses, vulvas, and other bodily parts wrestle in muddy puddles of blood, referencing rape and bloodshed as formative practices in the racial miscegenation of Brazil. A tropical setting damned throughout history as a colony of external power; orgasmic, as the role of exotic fantasy is projected upon its people; and devoted, throughout history, to dubious organized religious movements.

Other highlights include Yuli Yamagata鈥檚 鈥淣o More Secrets鈥� (2020), which depicts a fleshy, pink tongue licking an earlobe lustfully. Soft, multi-coloured, synthetic fabrics are sewn and stuffed together in a graphic picture. Collage, debasement and deformation are triggers to issues of taste, consumption and self-image. As for Janaina Tsch盲pe鈥檚 painting, 鈥淔orest Edge鈥� (2020), it emerges at first as a synesthetic experience. Intense lines and scribbles reveal traces of the condensation and distillation of the senses, infusing the work with a powerful erotic current.