Symbiosis: Brazilian Artists from the Marquez Family Collection
Nov 30, 2026 →Marquez Art Projects is proud to present Symbiosis. The exhibition, assembled from highlights of the Marquez Family Collection, brings together a dozen emerging artists based in Brazil. While wildly diverse in their outputs, these artists point toward the dynamic creative ecosystem of Brazil, and are united by an enduring interest in materiality and landscape, as well as the region’s deep modernist traditions. Across painting and mixed media, these artists fuse abstraction and figuration while engaging the textures, tensions, histories and contradictions of their materials.
A major preoccupation of these artists is the stakes of the evolving landscape of Brazil. The exhibition highlights a monumental abstract work by Rio de Janeiro-based artist Laís Amaral, whose practice engages themes of ecology, climate change and race, drawing comparisons between landscapes and more intimate or corporeal experiences. Works by Rafael Chavez, Rayana Rayo, and Marina Perez Simão look toward diverse horizons through lenses of surrealism, magic and poetry.
The exhibition highlights three iconic group portraits by self-taught Nova Igaçu-based artist Rafael Baron. Rendered in acrylic on canvas, these contoured subjects with heavy eyes, brightly made-up lips and patterned dress confront the viewer with a striking open-ended gaze. Observational paintings by Maxwell Alexandre and Vinicius Gerheim are tightly trained on everyday life, which they interpret to consider political and personal realities.
In multiplied artists working in abstraction, we find tension between control and chance. The work of São Paulo-based Mika Takahashi departs from figuration in sublime washes of color. By contrast, the rippling, even fellowing forms of Márcia Falcão suggest bodies in motion, or physical interiors. Together, this grouping of works speaks to the vitality and diversity of young artists in Brazil, and reveals deep collective exploration of the sensuous and interrogation of reality.
Featured artists include: Maxwell Alexandre, Rafael Baron, Vivian Caccuri, Rafael Chavez, Márcia Falcão, Vinicius Gerheim, Os Gemeos, Paolo Nimer Pjota, Rayana Rayo, Marina Perez Simão and Mika Takahashi.
Symbiosis is organized by Marquez Art Projects and curated by Alex Gartenfeld, curatorial adviser for MAP and Artistic Director of ICA Miami.
