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From April 3 to May 18 Janet’s Solo Exhibition ‘Na Simples e Suave Coisa, Suave, Coisa Nenhuma’ with curatorship by Galciane Neves will take place at Usina Luis Maluf, in São Paulo, Brazil.
This exhibition is about the invisible, but sensible. For Janet, her artworks are material expressions popping up out of a network of energies, like mushrooms growing out of the network of mycelium. All works in the exhibition communicate with "subtle energy", something that is available, vibrating and in exchange with the environment. Every being, every element (stone, earth, air, fire), every space has fields of energy at work. Janet’s exhibition, according to the artist herself, is a tribute to the earth and the energies that can be converted into presence. The title of the exhibition is taken from the song "Amor", released on the album "Secos e Molhados" by the similarly named band, in 1973, at a time when Brazil's military dictatorship was proving to be very violent. The lyrics are an ode to lightness and simplicity, but they soon become a contradiction. It is impossible to forget Ney Matogrosso dancing, wearing a flowing skirt and a feather on his head. His voice accompanies the lightness and oscillation of feeling, perception and the experience of love (is it?). His words "Na simples e suave coisa / Suave, coisa nenhuma", are pure poetry - that can hardly be translated from Brazilian Portuguese into English - that describes the essence of this exhibition in all its layers and as such were chosen as the name of the exhibition. In English we came closest to a translation of Ney Matogrosso’s poetry calling the exhibition: ‘In Sensible Space / Simple, Subtle, but Strong”. And so, we trace this free association of experiences between the lyrics and the works in Janet's exhibition, which deal with floating, fluid, subtle energies: "Light, like a light plume / Very light, light landing". An exhibition-energy that is dense and strong, and at the same time fades and blends in like "A blue cloud that dissolves" ....
The exhibition was supported by the Dutch Creative Industries Fund.
