Casa Bradesco, São Paulo, SP

2024

Executive production

Curator: Marcello Dantas

“The body is not contained; red is the refusal or the inability to contain, rationality is not enough. Rational means lead to an irrational object. Unconfined and uncontrolled.” — Anish Kapoor

“The outer landscape is a visible abstraction, but it is in the inner landscape that we find an invisible reality. Anish Kapoor invites us to contemplate what exists beyond what we see — what we feel internally. What if a mirror could reveal who we are inside? We would immediately realize that we are immensely larger than we appear on the outside. The color of this inner universe is predominantly red, and although certain shades may trigger a wide range of responses, red is perhaps the pigment to which almost all of us respond in a similar way.

In a world marked by extreme differences, it is crucial to remember that, at our core, we are all equally red. Kapoor explores the nonverbal nature of color through a pre-verbal symbolism. Dispensing with words — or even articulated thought — red in his work becomes a direct and visceral route to our interiority: it is blood, body, birth, death. Its tone, from vivid scarlet viscosity to the accumulation of coagulated darkness, leads us on a journey of return. In Kapoor’s words, ‘red is the center.’

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We live in an era of permanent inflammation, which speaks of a time when both the individual and the collective remain on alert — constantly on edge, finger on the trigger — facing the impossibility of healing and the desire for transformation. In this sense, inflammation becomes the energy of change.” — Marcello Dantas