Exhibition "Ogunhê", by Luiz Martins

Galeria Base opens the exhibition “ next Saturday (7)Ogunhê, "In Luiz Martins,
with critical text by Priscyla Gomes. Bringing together around 40 unpublished works — among
Drawings, paintings, sculptures, objects and video — the exhibition was conceived especially
to the gallery.

Known for his plurality, Luiz presents a set that reveals the breadth of
“Your research,” says Daniel Maranhão, director of Galeria Base and curator of the exhibition.
and adds, "Although the exhibition is not retrospective in nature, it invites the public."
to immerse oneself in the artist's universe, which reproduces, in certain works, his own history.
"Ogum opens the way and, in opening it, exposes the risks of the cut." The phrase, written by Priscyla
Gomes synthesizes the tension that structures Ogunhê, the artist's greatest individual work up to the...
moment. Starting from the evocation of the orisha associated with iron, work, and the opening of
Through various paths, the exhibition proposes an immersive experience that articulates memory, matter, and
spirituality.

Instead of illustrating the mythical figure, the exhibition incorporates its logic: that of the gesture that
It builds, cuts, and transforms.

Born in Machacalis (MG), Luiz Martins (1970) develops research marked by
its origins and through archaeological and anthropological investigations that challenge history.
and identity. His process involves repetition, layers and traces — watercolors,
Paintings, sculptures, and installations that reveal time as an active material.
The artist has been consolidating his international presence, with exhibitions in Portugal,
Austria, Poland, Lithuania, Denmark, Italy, Japan and France, expanding their dialogue.
production with different cultural contexts.

The exhibition is organized into two parts: Birth and Purification. In the first, the
Earth occupies the exhibition space as a primary element. In the second, the floor is covered.
by coarse salt, a material historically associated with preservation and protection. A
The physical presence of these materials transforms the visitor's movement into part of the experience.
construction site.

In this process, artistic creation approaches a ritual gesture. Repetition, accumulation.
And the layered work reveals a process that doesn't seek to erase what came before.
but to incorporate it as an active trace. The works operate as surfaces of memory,
where time settles and remains in tension.

As visitors move through the exhibition, they are invited to a direct sensory experience.
in which the body becomes a measure of space. Contact with materials—the density of the earth, the friction of the salt—transforms walking into practice, shifting the perception of
work as object for the work as experience.

Between earth and salt, Ogunhê invites the public to traverse a journey that creates tension.
origin and transformation, strength and measure — reaffirming the path as experience and
condition.

Service
Exhibition Ogunhê
From March 10rd to April 18th
Tuesday to Friday, from 10 am to 19 pm; Saturday, from 10 am to 15 pm