For its booth at the fair, the gallery has selected three artists from different generations, working with different media but whose works selected for the fair delve on the same theme. Miguel Rio Branco’s photos, Maria Klabin’s paintings and Ana Maria Tavares’ stainless still pieces explore the boundaries between fiction and reality and the many ways found by the human being, especially nowadays, to have pleasure. Sex, drugs, consumerism, the lust of carnival and religion are the common ground of these works.

With countless participations at Biennials and exhibitions in the main museums in Brazil and worldwide, Rio Branco is one of the main names in Brazilian photography and contemporary art. In 2012 a pavilion was opened to the public in Ihotim, Minas Gerais, entirely dedicated to his work.

Ana Maria Tavares will show a new series with contemporary “mantras”. These are works made in stainless steel, printed with words such as Lexotan, Stillnox, Desire, Sex, Credit Card, Sparkling water and other expressions, considered by the artist a synthesis to current days and work as passwords to explore the contemporary world. At the fair, these pieces would be shown as an installation on the wall, offering the visitor many possibilities of reading and interpreting them.

The young painter Maria Klabin “builds” through small paintings a nonsense narrative, scenes in places that even though seem real, hold a fantastic atmosphere with dreamlike characters. The game between real life and fiction, reason and delirium is remarkable in these series of paintings.