A Forts D'Aloia & Gabriel presents Slow Flying LuminescenceLuiz Zerbini's new exhibition in São Paulo. In this body of work, the image of termite mounds from the Brazilian Cerrado, with larvae in a state of bioluminescence, triggers a new investigation into color, light, and rhythm, based on phenomena from the natural world.
In the exhibition space, a large sculpture installation dialogues with large-scale paintings, creating an environment where traces of human presence coexist with the reproduction and transformation of nature's own image. In this interconnected and hypnotically atmospheric environment, surfaces and volumes become portals to an expanded perception. Pictorial and sculptural properties shift from one work to another, establishing a system of visual exchanges. The termite mound, in turn, appears sometimes in painting, sometimes as a sculptural body with a psychedelic texture.
“Like an affective and botanical inventory of the tropics, the artist once again turns to the landscape—not as an idyllic setting, but as a living, inhabited body, strained by visible and invisible histories. The forest, the fields, the riverbanks, the urban vestiges, and the remnants of what we call civilization are translated into large-scale sculptures and canvases, with geometric patterns and organic gestures,” writes Catarina Duncan in the critical essay accompanying the exhibition.
Together, the paintings and the installation form a web of relationships between narrative and geography, highlighting Zerbini's continuous experimentation across different media. The exhibition shows how environments, whether tropical forests, animal architectures, or coastal margins, are composed of vital layers, balances between opposites, ongoing transformations, a historical, ecological, and plastic entanglement.
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Exhibition Slow-Flying Luminescence
November 01th to January 24th, 2026
Tuesday to Friday, from 10 am to 19 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 18 pm
