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The exhibition O peso de cada um [The Weight of Each One] presents a shift from the work that Iole de Freitas had been developing up to early 2014. The polycarbonate sheets that the artist used previously have been substituted by sheets of stainless steel, which are stronger but much more difficult to bend, requiring more intense twisting and precise engineering calculations, due to the material’s weight and stiffness.

Despite the material’s specificities, however, the sculptures are suspended in the air, evolving through the space in an unfathomable ethereal dance, their original weight …