The artist Alessandra Rehder (São Paulo, 1989), represented by the Andrea Rehder Contemporary Art Gallery, presents its solo exhibition “Xaiure maaraesé xasaysu ndé (I came because I love you): from ashes to creation", at the Lasar Segall Museum, curated by Luiz Armando BagolinThe exhibition brings together previously unseen works, installations, and images that traverse different technical and poetic layers of the artist's work.
The exhibition proposes more than just a collection of works: it creates an atmosphere. Through panels, cutouts, three-dimensional devices, and works that move between photography, matter, and installation, Alessandra invites the public to a sensitive immersion in the complexity of nature and its rhythms. As the curator writes, it is not about reinforcing environmental slogans, but about establishing a "pedagogy of attention," capable of reconfiguring the way we look at the forest, its profound rhythms, and its almost invisible layers.
In “Amazonian Immersion,” thousands of cut leaves are superimposed on a real photograph of the primary forest of Pará, creating a vegetal body that breathes and transforms—an image that demands lingering. In “Circle of Time,” cut trunks reveal non-human rings and temporalities, intensified by a time-lapse video that reverses the tree's growth as a poetic archaeology of plant life. In “Forest Roll,” photographic rolls and tests become memory devices, challenging the very notion of image and its modes of existence.
The exhibition reaffirms Rehder's interest in experimental processes, in photography that shifts from the field of capture to that of listening. Her works, the result of visual research spanning more than fifteen years in different countries, incorporate experiences with low-HDI communities, contemporary environmental issues, and the relationships between territory, survival, and transformation. Between 2021 and 2023, the artist developed the EEC (Ecological Cultural Space) social project in Murrebue, Mozambique, focused on composting, permaculture, and agroforestry practices—an experience that resonates in her broader understanding of the image as an ethical and social gesture.
With works featured in galleries, fairs, and institutions in Brazil and abroad, and currently living between Frankfurt and São Paulo, Alessandra Rehder presents here her most dense and comprehensive project, inviting the public to relearn how to see and feel.
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Exhibition | Xaiure maaraesé xasaysu ndé (I came because I love you): from ashes to creation
From November 22th to February 23th
Wednesday to Monday, 11am to 19pm
