"Casa Corpo" exhibition by Flavia Renault

The artist Flavia Renault celebrates 30 years of career with the solo exhibition “Body House”, currently showing April 1st to 25th No. Pig iron, in São Paulo. Curated by Paula BorghiThe exhibition brings together around 50 works, including previously unseen pieces, that address themes such as life, death, and rebirth through everyday objects and personal memories.

Influenced by the Minas Gerais Baroque style and her family history, the artist's work is characterized by its strong symbolic and spiritual nature. In her pieces, remnants and collected objects are rearranged in overlays that revisit personal, family, and fictional memories. Renault She moves between drawing, painting, sewing and embroidery, incorporating documents, old books, furniture, photographs and other elements from her personal collection.

Among the highlights is the installation “Glass Slipper“(1999), reassembled with approximately 3,000 glass cups for the exhibition. Glass, present since the artist's childhood – she is the daughter of a glassmaker – appears as one of the central elements of the show, as it brings together transparency, alchemy, and elements of the home itself. The work also dialogues with her biographical history, since her great-grandparents brought the culture of glass to the family when they founded a glass factory in São Paulo at the beginning of the 20th century. “The installation is a tribute to this ancestry, presenting glass as an element shaped by breath and fire,” explains curator Paula Borghi.

Renault It also featuresColumn” (2026), an unprecedented work composed of glass cups stacked from floor to ceiling. “Erected with the intention of connecting two planes, the installation acts as a bridge between heaven (spiritual) and earth (physical), in order to bring spiritual essences to earthly reality and to carry earthly power to the cosmos,” comments Borghi.

On opening day (April 1st), the public will be able to experience an edible painting: a sponge cake filled with dulce de leche, conceived as a way to experience the artwork through the body, through digestion. “The digestive process is the most difficult for human beings. It’s like a war – many forces act to separate what is essential from what is disposable. Art should be experienced in this way, intrinsically,” says the artist.

"Home Body:" Flavia Renault 30 years of productionThis exhibition brings together drawings, collages, photographs, video, embroidery, and installations, inviting visitors to reflect on body, memory, and spirituality through the materiality of objects. It is an artistic production that liberates the art object from its formalist character and dissolves the boundaries between art and life.

Regarding the artist's work, Paula Borghi comments: "It's almost inevitable to look at the work of Flavia Renault ...and not to perceive the energy of the elements, the function of things in the world, and the physical and energetic exchanges that one has with materials. Here, all physical experience is bodily, and all artistic experience is spiritual.”

Service
Exhibition | Body Home
From April 1st to April 25th
Thursday to Saturday, from 14 pm to 19 pm