The sculptor and visual artist Mylene Costa He holds his first solo exhibition in Brazil with the show Form and Permanence, in the Heroes of 32 Space, in Legislative Assembly of São PauloThe exhibition brings together ten sculptures, including previously unseen works, that explore silence, permanence, and femininity as structures of form. Curated by Paco de AssisThe exhibition offers visitors an experience marked by density, gravity, and presence.
In Mylene Costa's artistic practice, form precedes discourse. The material does not illustrate a theme – it sustains an experience of direct perception, marked by restraint, density, and internal tension.
Working with bronze, resin, and marble, the artist investigates form as presence and thought: silence as structure, time as permanence, and the body as the matrix of language.
Femininity also permeates her poetics, not as an illustrative theme, but as a structural principle of form and tension that organizes matter, combining resistance, fluidity, and tension. Each work proposes to the viewer an intimate relationship with the body, time, and space.
One of the highlights of the exhibition “Form and Permanence”, currently showing at the Legislative Assembly of São Paulo, is the series “Nebra”, which reinforces the idea of silence as an active force and of permanence as a sculptural language, without resorting to explicit gestures or choreographic movements, but because they are sculptures with gesture, internal movement, weight, compression and gravity.
“In the exhibition, silence does not appear as absence, but as an active space that intensifies the presence of the work. Time is treated as permanence, and by privileging silence, pause, and density, I propose to the visitor a counterpoint to the acceleration of our daily lives and reaffirm the physical experience of the body and matter,” comments the artist.
Held in March, a month dedicated to women, the exhibition also broadens the debate about the female presence in the symbolic construction of public and institutional space. According to curator Paco de Assis:
“Femininity here is neither adornment nor discourse. It is structure. Like folds and fissures that organize matter without causing it to yield, the feminine manifests itself as the intelligence of flexibility: the capacity to accommodate tension, change direction, and yet remain.”
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Exhibition Form and Permanence
From March 3rd to 13th
Monday to Friday, from 8:30 am to 18 pm. Closed on Saturdays and Sundays.
