Verve presents a dialogue between two artists: Guilherme Callegari and Igor Vidor. With distinct approaches and deployments, both drink from the same source: everyday life and how it affects our perception of the world. Guilherme Callegari makes his compositions in painting from elements that convey symbols of consumer culture. There is an additional layer of meaning there: art as an archeology of the cultural habits of our time. In these works, there is no longer anything written: only typographic stains and color fields. By defunctionalizing the verbal language, the artist is therefore aestheticizing the designer's art: lines, voids, thickness, blocks of color and graphic stains.

Igor Vidor’s approach comes from the critical observation of Brazilian reality and its power institutions. His research focuses on the contemporary dynamics of violence, crime, power and resistance in Brazil, perpetuated since European colonization. In the series of works made with kite paper, Vidor makes a strong statement on the lives of so many children whose childhood is stolen by the militias on an everyday basis in the communities of Rio de Janeiro. The Esquema Series, made with gun bullets collected in these communities, is a critical revision on the Concretism and Neo-concretism movements, historically related to power elites from the southeast that still hold power in the Brazil's geopolitical dynamics. By presenting these two young artists' approach together, Verve brings a diverse panorama of contemporary Brazilian production, where the artworks can be read as living testimonial of turbulent and changing times in the country.