auroras is honored to announce the first exhibition in Brazil by the renowned artist, filmmaker, and writer Renée Green (Cleveland, 1959). Green’s international practice deploying a range of media–painting, sculptures, installations, film, video, sound-related works, Space Poems, architectural arrangements and other forms–spans four decades, reflecting the effects of a changing transcultural sphere and what can now be made and thought.

After a site visit in early 2024, Green has mindfully selected for this exhibition three bodies of work from different decades that resonate with auroras’ modernist architecture, as well as with the artist’s ongoing poetic, historical, and personal relation to Brazil.

Upon entering the house, a projection room sets the tone for the exhibition with a short film. A poetic meditation on distance, Come Closer (2008) is a short and peripatetic film, casting an affective web between the locations of Lisbon, San Francisco and Brazil. Through its Portuguese narration, the film recasts Green’s ongoing relationship with the Lusophone world as a visceral reminder of the complexity of intertwined relations and how history resides in the present.