View upcoming auction estimates and receive personalized email alerts for the artists you follow It is impossible to reflect on the work of artist and intellectual Lia D Castro (Martinópolis, São Paulo, 1978) without talking about encounters, contrasts, frictions and transformations. Starting July 5, visitors can view the exhibition Lia D Castro: Everywhere and Nowhere The artist’s first solo show in a museum brings together 36 works The selected works explore scenarios where affection dialogue and imagination become important tools for social transformation The title of the exhibition stems from the historical absence of minority groups in positions of power and decision-making—nowhere—while their presence and workforce make up the foundations that sustain society—everywhere the show features the artist’s entire body of work Lia D Castro uses prostitution as a research tool and develops her production from encounters with her clients—mostly white of middle and upper class—to subvert relationships of power or violence that may arise between them are addressed on these occasions and result in collaborative paintings she talks to these men and invites them to reflect: when did you realize you were White And when did you discover yourself to be a cisgender “Questions to which the artist does not seek a definitive answer but rather to provoke a position within the racial gender and sexuality debate,” says curator Isabella Rjeille investigates the social relations of class gender and race that arise in intimacy and vulnerability Lia D Castro’s exhibition “Em todo e nenhum lugar” (Everywhere and Nowhere) includes works from five series of small- and medium-format paintings created since 2011.