Group exhibition "Horror, humor and absurdity"

A Park Culture House presents the exhibition “Horror, humor, and absurdity.” (Park Gallery), as part of its First Exhibition Cycle. Curated by Jose Augusto RibeiroThe exhibition brings together works by Darks Miranda (Fortaleza, 1985) Flavia Metzler (Rio de Janeiro, 1974) Ivan Cardoso (Rio de Janeiro, 1952) and Yuli Yamagata (São Paulo, 1989) to reflect on a contemporary production marked by imaginative and ambiguous aspects.

Among films, paintings, and sculptures, the works propose experiences of visual saturation and contradiction, in which irregularity and monstrosity operate as strategies to challenge reality. "The idea is to examine how the combination of terror and comedy produces results with a force of insubordination: both in confronting the norms that seem to govern the state of things in the world, and in the elaboration of languages ​​that transcend the boundaries between genres and artistic manifestations," states the curator.

The exhibition features films by Ivan Cardoso — the “master of terror,” a term he coined in the 1970s. The filmmaker brings together contrasting references in frame-by-frame collages that articulate Tropicália, German Expressionist cinema, Hélio Oiticica, Zé do Caixão, Brazilian marginal cinema, comic book plots, sensationalist journalism, concrete poetry, among other elements, without assigning a fixed meaning to the dialogues created.

Darks Miranda incorporates the languages ​​of cinema and collage in “A Dangerous Night on the Island of Vulcan” (2022), edited from excerpts of science fiction films produced between 1950 and 1980, the height of the Cold War. The work articulates her trajectory as an editor in the construction of a “second-hand cinema”.

Flávia Metzler's paintings construct scenes in friction with the history of art, using fragments of images, objects, architecture, and scientific or philosophical concepts. In the montage of images, Metzler appropriates the knowledge of framing and the organization of events in space to generate suspense.

Yuli Yamagata, who recently began producing short videos, incorporates references from horror films, Japanese animation and comics, as well as the logic of ultra-processed foods into her work. This area of ​​interest focuses on low-cost (for factories) and high-risk (for consumers) industrial production formulas based on chemical additives, thus establishing a kind of "transgenic reality."

In addition to the group exhibition, the cycle includes the solo shows “Badauê”, by Andrea Brazil (Gabinete), and “Calendário” by Felipe Rezende (Projeto 280X1020). According to Claudio Cretti, artistic director of the Casa, the program seeks to “stretch the boundaries between the conceivable and the inconceivable, highlighting the potential of fiction to critically reflect on reality”.

Finally, the Performances program will open on March 28, 2026, at 17 pm, with performer and dancer Maria Noujaim presenting “Lago”. Through the transposition of mythology into movement, the artist explores the hybridity between animal and human, taking as a starting point the Greek myth of Leda and the Swan.

The OI Exhibition Cycle is curated by Claudio Cretti and is an initiative of the Institute of Contemporary Culture (ICCo) and was made possible with resources from the Rouanet Law, Ministry of Culture, with sponsorship from Banco BV, Laranjinha and Banco Itaú.

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Exhibition Horror, humor, and absurdity
From March 28 to June 28
Wednesday to Sunday, from 11 am to 18 pm