Filomena Gallery presents "A Conversa Infinita", a solo exhibition by Virgílio Neto curated by Marc Pottier, on view from July 4 to September 1, 2025.
Featuring 30 previously unseen works — including drawings, paintings, and objects — the show continues the artist’s exploration of the concept of landscape, understood not only as a representation of space, but as a sensitive, narrative, and emotional territory. Through drawing — the central language of his practice — Virgílio constructs compositions that blend words, symbols, and shapes into shared spaces between the intimate and the collective, the real and the imagined.
His iconographic repertoire brings together elements of Brazilian fauna, flora, and popular culture, as well as references to art history and architecture, interwoven with fragments of everyday life and literature. These works function like open maps, where each line suggests a path, an encounter, a memory.
Part of the pieces featured in the exhibition were created following an artist residency in Japan — a country whose visual and poetic traditions echo in the fluidity of ink, the appreciation of emptiness, and the notion of a landscape that goes beyond the gaze, extending into everyday experience. Highlights include works on paper, paintings on canvas and wood, and a new series of plate-objects that mark an expansion of the artist’s material and conceptual vocabulary.
"A Conversa Infinita" borrows its title from a book by French philosopher Maurice Blanchot, whose writing also operates on the threshold between presence and absence, silence and speech. As in Virgílio’s drawings, it is a conversation without an end — where meaning is always in motion, open to the other. There is no conclusion here: art is a crossing.
The exhibition invites viewers to immerse themselves in a visual universe where everything can be a beginning — a space of listening, imagination, and discovery, open to multiple gazes and possible stories.
Find out more at: @virgilio_neto
July 03 to September 02
24H
Galeria Filomena - Rosewood São Paulo
Art & Culture
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