We Were Born in Different Poems
May 31, 2025 - Jun 28, 2025
We live in times marked by increasingly evident fissures. This ideological polarization not only occupies the space of institutionalized politics, but has also infiltrated everyday life, through hidden affections and discourses.
The borders 鈥� geographic, symbolic, cultural 鈥� which, at the beginning of the century, seemed to be disappearing 鈥� are now rising due to a renewed force of exclusion, driven by controlling and protective mechanisms. Far removed from the time of the crusades, our times are inundated with cultural and identity wars, marked by fanaticism of rigid beliefs, in which dialogue is only encouraged through hatred and violence.
Faced with a scenario of acute fragmentation, it becomes imperative that our gaze focus on the subjective dimensions that art, in an ontological way, can salvage 鈥� whether through empathy and the ability to understand others, or simply to highlight the creative and fruitful power that resides in each of us.
It is precisely for this reason that we discern the linear recognition and rigor that, although mapped by distinct histories and geographies, lives within these plausible encounters, revealing the virtue of a shared human history.
The verse by the Brazilian poet Paulo Leminski (1944鈥�1989), for which this exhibition is named, then appears as a proposal of displacement: from the logic of separation to the ethics of gathering
in a common space.
That same commonality, to cite Jean-Luc Nancy鈥檚 premise, which is no longer a maxim, but rather a fragile and urgent construction 鈥� is not about what we share because we are identical, but rather what we risk by coexisting while distinct.
Against the backdrop of silence that carries centuries of exacerbated violence 鈥� marked by the colonial relationship 鈥� this exhibition space proposes itself as a territory in suspense, where the works do not illustrate discourses, but establish regimes of sensitivity capable of reconfiguring the visible, the thinkable and the sayable.
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We live in times marked by increasingly evident fissures. This ideological polarization not only occupies the space of institutionalized politics, but has also infiltrated everyday life, through hidden affections and discourses.
The borders 鈥� geographic, symbolic, cultural 鈥� which, at the beginning of the century, seemed to be disappearing 鈥� are now rising due to a renewed force of exclusion, driven by controlling and protective mechanisms. Far removed from the time of the crusades, our times are inundated with cultural and identity wars, marked by fanaticism of rigid beliefs, in which dialogue is only encouraged through hatred and violence.
Faced with a scenario of acute fragmentation, it becomes imperative that our gaze focus on the subjective dimensions that art, in an ontological way, can salvage 鈥� whether through empathy and the ability to understand others, or simply to highlight the creative and fruitful power that resides in each of us.
It is precisely for this reason that we discern the linear recognition and rigor that, although mapped by distinct histories and geographies, lives within these plausible encounters, revealing the virtue of a shared human history.
The verse by the Brazilian poet Paulo Leminski (1944鈥�1989), for which this exhibition is named, then appears as a proposal of displacement: from the logic of separation to the ethics of gathering
in a common space.
That same commonality, to cite Jean-Luc Nancy鈥檚 premise, which is no longer a maxim, but rather a fragile and urgent construction 鈥� is not about what we share because we are identical, but rather what we risk by coexisting while distinct.
Against the backdrop of silence that carries centuries of exacerbated violence 鈥� marked by the colonial relationship 鈥� this exhibition space proposes itself as a territory in suspense, where the works do not illustrate discourses, but establish regimes of sensitivity capable of reconfiguring the visible, the thinkable and the sayable.
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