About

Zéh Palito and I met in Jardins on a July afternoon in 2024 to discuss his work. Neither of us is from Jardins, a neighborhood in São Paulo known for its concentration of galleries and art dealers. Zéh Palito is from Limeira, in the countryside of São Paulo, and I am from Minas Gerais, a state with deep ties to São Paulo. We were both visitors, somewhat accustomed to the social codes of that space which we occupy professionally with varying degrees of comfort and discomfort. I introduce this topic because challenging exclusionary codes is one of the central interests in Palito’s painting. In …