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Tiago Mestre’s solo exhibition Smoke Gets In Your Eyes presents a group of ceramic sculptures that seem to occupy a fluid position between binary ideas of nature versus artifice and fleetingness versus permanence.

Smoke as a diaphanous and mysterious substance, water as an ever-flowing element, and the mashrabiya – a type of latticework used in modern Brazilian architecture -, create a set of relationships between the works. By approximating these images, Mestre aims to interrogate the appropriation of nature through systematic cultural though, while also attempting to confer landscape with …