At VIMA Art Fair, Gallery Isabelle brings together three artists whose practices uncover poetry within the overlooked, the intimate, and the organic.
Brazilian artist Zé Tepedino transforms discarded umbrellas, tarps, towels, and Havaianas collected from the shores and streets of Rio de Janeiro into lyrical assemblages that carry traces of urban life, memory, and resilience.
In collaboration with Soufia Erfanian, Tehran-born artist Tirdad Hashemi creates intimate drawings of flowers and figures that reflect on care, tenderness, and queer embodiment, while their narrative titles draw viewers into deeply sentimental worlds.
Meanwhile, Indian artist Richi Bhatia explores the porous boundary between human and nonhuman worlds through labor-intensive works incorporating fish scales, burnt drawings, organic matter, and remnants from meat and fish markets, confronting themes of bodily transformation, vulnerability, and human-animal entanglement.
