Isabella Brito, Joardo Filho, Talles Lopes and Valdson Ramos.March 28, 2026.
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Barranco held “Open Studio,” an opportunity for the public to learn about the creative process behind the works of artists Isabella Brito, Joardo Filho, Talles Lopes, and Valdson Ramos.
Open Studio showcased works created in the first few months of 2026 as part of the “Painting Atelier” project, an initiative that featured a variety of creative and formative activities, such as an artist residency, lectures, discussions, and workshops.
The project promoted experimentation in contemporary art through a discussion of painting. Throughout the project, the artists were encouraged to reflect on the affinities and dissonances of their artistic practices in relation to the field of painting.
During the project, Valdson Ramos, Joardo Filho, and Talles Lopes shared the workspace, dedicating themselves to practical and theoretical studies, investigations of artistic poetics, experimentation, and the creation of new works. This experience was complemented by a dialogue with Isabella Brito, an artist invited for a one-month artist residency at Barranco Ateliê. During this period, she focused on her practice in dialogue with the studio’s artists, also benefiting from a production grant.
During the project, Valdson Ramos explored the religious sculptures of the renowned Goiás-born artist José Joaquim da Veiga Valle (1806–1874). By visiting historical museums that house the sculptor’s works, Ramos was able to reimagine the statues by covering them with linen veils. The artist produced a series of paintings based on photographs of the covered saints, drawing the public’s attention to the ornamentation created by Veiga Valle for the bases of the sculptures—a part that remains visible beneath the linen.
Throughout his career, the artist Joardo Filho has been experimenting with the failings of artistic media, often creating works based on the errors, imperfections, and unpredictable defects of photographic devices. During his time in the studio, the artist applied this interest to the field of painting, deliberately engaging with the medium without relying on traditional fine arts methods. In this way, Joardo explored a series of abstractions that experiment with the unpredictability of materials and the erratic gestures of a non-painter.
Talles Lopes’ work is shaped by his background in architecture. In recent years, the artist has been exploring the modernist forms of Brazilian architecture through his artistic practice. During the “Painting Workshop,” Lopes focused on experimenting with architectural elements as references for the contours and pictorial forms of his new works. At the same time, the artist developed a series of papier-mâché sculptures, turning his attention to the colors and hues generated by the surface of the paper pulp, marking his artistic interest in a field situated between the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional.
During her residency at Barranco Ateliê, Isabella Brito began the series “Vagalume tem-tem,” an exploration of the relationship between rural spaces and the presence of fireflies. Brito used the appropriation of antique objects and painting with phosphorescent paint as means to construct a narrative about memory, erasure, and hope. The artist’s work is linked to the research project “O apagar da memória: vagalumes, arte contemporânea e cultura caipira no Cerrado" (The Fading of Memory: Fireflies, Contemporary Art, and Rural Culture in the Cerrado)” conducted at the TECCER Graduate Program at the State University of Goiás (UEG) under the guidance of Prof. Rafael de Almeida as part of Entre-Imagens: Experimental Laboratory of Cinema and Art.
The project explores the exchange between artists, aiming to place artistic practice at the center of the artistic discourse and encourage collective experimentation within the studio context, while also benefiting from the critical guidance of curator Paulo Henrique Silva. In this vein, the “Painting Atelier” also welcomed Goiás-based artist Selma Parreira for an egg tempera workshop at Barranco Ateliê. In addition to the “Open Conversation,” a public talk on Parreira’s career, the workshop led by the artist featured a weekend dedicated to practice and pictorial experimentation with tempera.
This project is funded by the Goyazes Program of the Government of Goiás, through the State Secretariat of Culture.
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