M.A.L.A 2026

Em diálogo com a nossa ida à Argentina em 2026, consideramos fundamental reconhecer a potência do trabalho de Mirtha Dermisache, artista argentina cuja obra expandiu radicalmente as noções de linguagem e escrita. Suas “caligrafias ilegíveis”, como definiu Roland Barthes, rompem com os códigos tradicionais da comunicação verbal, abrindo espaço para uma experiência visual, poética e sensível do texto. A pertinência de estudá-la hoje, especialmente no campo do livro de artista, está na forma como ela tensiona os limites entre palavra, imagem e forma editorial, seus cadernos, publicações e grafismos são verdadeiros livros de artista que não se preocupam em dizer, mas em fazer sentir, traçando percursos subjetivos que nos convidam a ler com o corpo. Revisitar Mirtha é também refletir sobre os gestos da escrita como expressão artística em si, e reconhecer na tradição latino-americana um legado experimental e profundamente contemporâneo.

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Paulo Silveira Paulo Silveira (full name: Paulo Antonio de Menezes Pereira da Silveira) holds a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts, with specializations in Drawing (1986) and Painting (1988), and in Social Communication (1980) from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). At the same institution, he earned his master's (1999) and doctorate (2008) in Visual Arts, with an emphasis on the History, Theory, and Criticism of Art. Currently, he works as an adjunct professor of art history in the Department of Visual Arts at UFRGS's Institute of Arts, teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. From 1982 to 2010, he was a visual programmer at Editora da UFRGS, where he also coordinated the editing section. As a researcher, he focuses on Visual Arts, with an emphasis on the history and theory of contemporary art, perception, and intermedia. He is a member of the National Association of Researchers in Plastic Arts (ANPAP), the Brazilian Committee of Art History, and a co-founder of the Veículos da Arte research group (UFRGS/CNPq).

Immersion week 2026

Guest professors in the 2026 edition

Luciane Kunde is an artist, researcher and educator. She holds a master's degree in Visual Arts and researches handmade paper as an expressive resource. She sees process and material as elements of artistic creation. She develops original artistic projects and teaches free handmade paper workshops. She is a professor at the OPA (Handmade Paper Workshop) held at the Institute of Arts at Unicamp. She is a member of IAPMA, a global association of paper artists and researchers.

@lukundeborges

Andrea Thomazella is a visual artist, graduated from the University of São Paulo (1982), with a master's and doctorate in Visual Poetics from the Institute of Arts of the University of Campinas, SP, (2015, 2022). She develops research with artist's books, painting, drawing and engraving.

@andreathomazella

Claudio Rocha (AKA Active Principle) is a visual artist from Earth, involved in the archaeology of images and seduced by colors, computer graphics and, of course, chance… Apparently, his curiosity has no formal limits, depicting the world in a subtly abstract way, but only when he manages to abstract the concreteness of the figures. From an inevitable contact with the collective unconscious, he exposes his sensations through deliberately evocative creations.

@claudiorocha_activeprinciple

Matheus Gonçalves is a visual artist and historian born in São Paulo. His artistic practice ranges from drawing, engraving, painting, and artist's books, exploring the relationships between art, politics, and memory. Through the project Blocco Storico, investigates ways of reflecting on the future using graphic image reproduction techniques.

@bloccostorico