ZMR VS. TMM

"Zimar vs. Thiago Martins de Melo: A Thousand Heads Under The Apotheosis of The Last Sky " was Lima Galeria’s project for SP–Arte Rotas Brasileiras 2023, proposing a dialogue between two artists from Maranhão with different backgrounds and practices, but with the same inventive energy. Curated by Germano Dushá, the project establishes an intense dialogue between two artists who use universal elements of Brazilian culture as the basis for singular creations of strong expressiveness. His works reformulate well-known symbols and objects into striking compositions, combining radical materiality and free fantasy, amazement and humor, history and biography. In a cohesive installation, Zimar's masks are added to Thiago Martins de Melo's sculptural paintings, composing a dense and atmospheric environment, permeated by the manifestation of multiple expressive characters, as a kind of ritualistic space or force field for the intense circulation of uncountable narratives.