A Aura is pleased to present “One cannot touch the core of things without some risk.”, the artist's first solo exhibition Marina Schroeder in the gallery. Under the curatorial eye of Galciani NevesThe exhibition brings together recent and previously unseen work that explores the gaps in the artist's family history and the marks left by post-war Germany.
The title, borrowed from Cristina Rioto's book of poems "Guardar o corpo com palavras" (2025), refers to Schroeder's creative process, which involves emotional vulnerability and sensitive intimacy with organic materials. "Coexisting with these sensations narrated by relatives, with unofficial stories, and with the remnants of a Germany devastated by the Second World War, Marina Schroeder found herself facing a kind of inheritance: threads of a narrative yet to be told, which sometimes rest, sometimes unravel, and leave many unknowns in the air," writes the curator.
The highlight of the exhibition lies in the artist's chemical experimentation process. Marina managed to extract her own color palette from white rose petals. While in her studio she pushes the materiality of the flowers to the limit, reducing them to chromatic residues and extracts, in her investigation of her ancestry the path is the opposite: her family history is confronted through the vestiges and silences that remain. “From the vestige, I extract the story that interests me. Nothing is invented: everything is taken from what already exists,” explains Schroeder.
The frottage technique also creates reliefs and textures; the friction against walls attests to the survival of what is inaccessible, as well as referencing the Berlin Wall. In this sense, the elements chosen in her process are not accidental, but, above all, reflect universal symbolism: "the wall is separation, violence, imposition. The rose is ornament, beauty, affection," as the artist herself defines it.
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Exhibition One cannot touch the inner workings of things without some risk.
From February 09th to March 26th
Monday to Friday, from 10 am to 19 pm; Saturdays, from 11 am to 17 pm
