Between March and May 2012, Gabriela Machado occupied the three rooms of the Paço Imperial in Rio de Janeiro, with an exhibition which she exhibited paintings and drawings created over the last few years.
The Portuguese poet Matilde Campilho wrote about the exhibition: “An exhibition that is a journey, but a journey without order. Order, if it exists, is found in the line. Here we are not looking for explicit time, rather we are looking for a timelessness of magical coloring. Atlantic Forest, European gardens, extended cactus plains: everything summarized in a human gesture. Or as someone once said, men's hearts fit on these giant screens. Gabriela Machado's work is a pure way of expressing the relationship between people and nature. Between blood and water, between the line of an arm and the drawn line. This is a painting of eternal birth, of constant renewal. These are strong, raw, firm, soft and composed colors. Everything is a very natural body, inside and outside the museum walls. This is the expression of dance, and dance is everything that breathes and sings. Within these walls is the garden of the world.”
Painting is the predominant language in Gabriela's production, in which we can see the recurring use of large, impactful canvases, transfiguring elements of nature into contemporary pictorial material.
