Moisés Patricio, in a performance with Sete Cantos para Pai João de Camargo

CRACKS It is a relevant contemporary art event in the interior of São Paulo that has been taking place since 2014. Over the course of 10 years, it has been curated by Josué de Mattos, Daniela Labra, Diane Lima, Beatriz Lemos, and Thiago de Paula Souza, always offering an interdisciplinary vision and a record of the territory, bringing together artists, communities, and research. 

In this 4st edition The curatorial team consists of researchers Luciara Ribeiro, born in Bahia, with a master's degree in... History Art studies non-Western arts, especially African, Afro-Brazilian, and Amerindian art; by Naine Terena, born in Cuiabá, Master in Art.s Khadyg Fares holds a doctorate in Education, belongs to the Terena people, and works at the intersection of educational practice and audiovisual production. doctoral student em Art History Researchers at UNIFESP focus on anti-colonial studies and non-hegemonic artistic practices. Cadu Gonçalves, Cristina Fernandes, and Val Chagas also collaborate on the educational production of the project. 

For the curators, the title and concept "from the path, a prayer" stemmed from a process of listening to the territory of Sorocaba and the surrounding region, its memories, conflicts, spirituality, and living presences, which were interwoven with their research and the reading of reflections by the indigenous intellectual and history doctor Tadeu Kaingang. This aligns with the Kaingang worldview that "every path is a prayer.", The notions of the path as a place of crossroads and also of confluences were added. The encounter with Antônio Bispo dos Santos (Nêgo Bispo) and Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, brought Reflections on the concept of thaki, from the Andean indigenous language, Aymara, which refers to a winding, non-linear path that embodies a conscious and vibrant journey. Spirituality appears as a place of memory and a journey that leads to sacred sites.

At the opening of the exhibition, Moses Patrick, visual artist and babalorixá, led a walk starting from sesc towards the Chapel, where the sensory installation "Seven Songs for Father John of Camargo", honors the legacy of João de Camargo, a central figure in story Black, spiritual, and community-based city of Sorocaba.

Throughout the exhibition, the relationship between the artists' history and the history of the place is fundamental.

In this sense, the selection of a significant percentage of artists from Sorocaba and other parts of Brazil transforms the event into an important social act. “The significant presence of regional participants and initiatives emerges as a listening to the territory, but it also happens as a decision.” political "In the interest of asserting protagonism and shifting/rethinking centralities of the artistic circuit." It is worth noting that the list of participants resulted from research for the exhibition. The choice of numerous unknown artists from the region and beyond, alongside established artists, strengthens the edition and challenges consolidated hierarchies. "We strategically used the exhibition space to be occupied not only by artists, but by other forms of activity, mainly from educational and community spheres."", "The curators comment." 

It is interesting to note that the collective work of curators This is reflected in the choice of works that are little known or unknown to the São Paulo art scene.

In the G2 building, the installation, “A meeting of lands"This is a collaborative effort between Caianas, an Indigenous Environmentalist Collective for Action for Nature, Agroecology, and Sustainability, founded in 2025 in Miranda, MS, and the Vale do Ribeira Seed Network Cooperative, El Dorado, and André Felipe Cardoso, from Quilombo São Felix in Minaçu, GoiâniaSince 1997, this event has been a meeting of many hands and diverse knowledge, encompassing seeds from the Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, and Pantanal wetlands, ceramics produced in the Quilombo Alto Santana and handcrafted with wood, basketry, and earth-based paints from indigenous and quilombola communities. 

The idea of ​​a crack or gap is implied in the event's name. AboutThe exhibition was conceived to transcend concepts that until now have been seen as separate or isolated. Painting, ceramics, light, photography, straw, fabrics. Using contemporary art, different concepts that once belonged to specific social and cultural segments of Brazilian and international populations began to appear to a broad, non-segmented, and unfamiliar audience.

Frestas 2026 is a work worthy of art's ability to keep up with its time.

Colectiva Ch'ixi – La Paz, Bolivia

Weaving and unweaving identities

A performance that articulates ancestral Andean memory and contemporary migrant experience, based on the symbolic gesture of braiding and unbraiding hair. The action proposes a poetic reflection on heritages, displacements, and resistances that constitute bodies in the present, through visual, sound, and bodily elements.

The performance stems from the trajectory of Colectiva Ch'ixi, a community space located in the city of La Paz, which articulates practices such as agriculture, construction, art exhibitions, and citizen participation. 

Brazil, and especially Sorocaba, becomes a symbolic territory for exchange and reflection on multiple identities, traversed by histories of migration, ancestry, and belonging. In the context of the Triennial, the action activates the encounter between three identity matrices—Andean, African, and European—with an emphasis on the Afro-Andean presence.


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