Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1964, Adriana Varejão has made her mark as one of the most singular figures in contemporary Brazilian creation since the 1990s. Drawing on references to Brazil’s colonial history, libertine literature or traditional music, her work invents a contemporary form of baroque through its theatricality, monumentality, excessiveness and artifice.
Between the minimalist Saunas and the gutted azulejo façades baring their raw flesh, the catalog for the exhibition Chambre d’échos, presented at the Fondation Cartier in 2005, sets out to plumb the depths of this baroque, savvy, instinctive intelligence by offering different views of a sensual, poetic work that stands between painting, sculpture and architecture.

Texts by Philippe Sollers and Paulo Herkenhoff, interview by Hélène Kelmachter

Adriana Varejão, Chambre d´échos
Publisher: Fondation Cartier pour l´art contemporain, Paris, 2005
Hardback, 22 x 28 cm, 112 pages, 40 color illustrations
Bilingual version French / English
Distribution in France: Actes Sud, Arles
ISBN: 978 27427 5440 7
Price: 30 euros