Sistema-Mundo

São Paulo / 2026

The exhibition Sistema-Mundo brings together a selection of sculptures, drawings, installations, and videos by Marina Camargo, curated by Tiago Mesquita. In Sistema-Mundo, maps appear as elements of material culture that are continuously reworked: at times they are altered and used as a medium; at other times they are dismantled and reorganized according to other logics; or even completely reinvented. Throughout the exhibition, Camargo expands her ongoing research on cartography and spatial representation, opening new forms of geography, as well as new materialities and modes of existence for maps and territories.

One of the works, The Redrawn Map, presents a sequence of news articles from recent years that addresses the concrete reality of what happens to places before maps are redrawn. These events are generally tied to territorial disputes marked by violence, wars, and appropriations that generate conflict and eventually lead to changes in borders and the redrawing of maps. By bringing these narratives into the exhibition space, the work underscores the political and affective tensions embedded in cartographic images.

The diverse materialities of the works in Sistema-Mundo reflect Marina Camargo’s working process, which unfolds through long-term research and sustained experimentation with materials, forms, and concepts. The repeated gestures of remaking and reinventing maps become a way of thinking about the world and, at the same time, about the conditions under which space can be represented, imagined, and contested.

Sistema-Mundo / Exhibition at Superfície Gallery

From June 18 until August 8, 2026.

Curator: Tiago Mesquita

Galeria Superfície / R. Oscar Freire 240, São Paulo – Brazil

Director: Gustavo Nóbrega

Operations Director: Tiê Higashi

Communication: Brenda Caldeira

Production: Paulo Bourroul

Installation: Carlos Moraes

Maintenance: Val Santana

Photos:

Studio Leticia Remião