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Nara Roesler São Paulo is pleased to present Thiago Barbalho: Secrets and Spells, the artist's first solo exhibition in the city. With drawing as the main axis of his poetic expression, Barbalho began his professional journey as a writer, and, according to him, “drawing emerged from the process of dissatisfaction with writing, from the fraying of that relationship.” Gradually, Barbalho realized that through graphic forms and signs—often created accidentally—it was possible to elaborate on the vast majority of images and visual stimuli we encounter daily. For him, the visual stimuli of …