Solo exhibition "Three Houses", by Nuno Ramos

Housed in a former industrial warehouse reconfigured to house artistic practices and reflections on the present, MACRS 4D was created as a public platform focused on aesthetic experience and the production of meaning at a time of profound transformation—both for the city and for the collective imagination.

The choice of Nuno Ramos This opening is not accidental: his work, recognized for its poetic and political strength, strains the boundaries between individual memory and collective history. Three Houses It completely occupies the exhibition space and proposes an immersion in the time of matter and the fragility of forms, in a dialogue that gains particular density after the floods that devastated Rio Grande do Sul in 2024.

Curated by André Severo, the exhibition presents a large installation that will occupy the entire space of the new museum, located in the heart of the 4th District of Porto Alegre — a historic region undergoing cultural and urban transformation.

The work, entitled Three Houses, immerses the visitor in a unique sensory and emotional experience, combining the artist's personal memory with a powerful commentary on the fragility of human existence in the face of the devastating force of nature.

At the center of the installation, three life-size replicas of the houses where Nuno Ramos lived throughout his life emerge as specters of a past that, though familiar, is being relentlessly devoured by time and the elements. Each house, meticulously reconstructed, submerges in a mud pool installed within the gallery. These pools—one white, one black, and the third brown—evoke complex layers of meaning, materiality, and symbolism.

The choice of colors and textures is no accident: they represent the stages of life and the contrasting emotions that accompany them. The houses, sunk into this inhospitable environment, seem to resist annihilation, symbolizing the persistence of memory and inevitable transformation.

"Three Houses" was presented in 2012 at Galeria Celma Albuquerque in Belo Horizonte, but here it takes on an even more urgent resonance. Echoing the floods that devastated Rio Grande do Sul in May 2024—the greatest climate disaster in the state's history—the work becomes a collective metaphor for vulnerability and mourning. The submerged houses become monuments of memory, not only personal, but also social and political.

As the audience walks through the installation, they are invited to reflect on impermanence, the sense of belonging, and the relationship between art and life in a world where unpredictable nature transforms the known into a threat.

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Exhibition | Three Houses
From August 11th to January 11th
Tuesday to Friday, 12pm to 18pm, Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 18pm