Célio Braga is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice fluidly crosses photography, painting, drawing, textiles, and sculpture. Pushing materials and techniques to their limits—through cycles of construction, destruction, and reconstruction—he embraces unusual processes and references a broad range of visual languages, from applied arts to craft traditions. His work embodies impermanence, doubt, and transformation, while conceptually engaging with the fragility of the body, presence and absence, time, violence, religion, and sexuality.
Perfect Friends unfolds as a series of 42 intimate portraits, each composed from men’s shirts once worn and given by friends, friends of friends, and acquaintances. Cut into fragments, the fabric is mounted on wooden stretchers and laboriously hand-sewn, transforming into a delicate, skin-like surface.
Perfect Lovers extends this dialogue into love. This series of ten diptychs portrays gay couples and long-time companions, also crafted from gifted shirts. Here, fabric becomes witness: threads and seams binding together the intimacies of affection, loyalty, and shared life.
**7 Sep | Sun | 15.00–17.00 Exhibition Opening
**13 Sep | Sat | 14.00 Discussion – 15 Dutch
and French artists on feminist themes. 15.30–17.00 – Guided
tour by artists. (13–14 Sep: Open Monumentendagen)
from 28 Sep
Ladenkastproject: 8 new installations with Bima Engels, Emily Kocken, Ceola Tunstall-Behrens, among others.
**28 Sep | Sun | 15.00–17.00 Exhibition Opening
