In his new solo exhibition at Galeria Millan, social contract, the artist Rubens Mano will display 17 never-before-seen works – among them photographs, installations, videos and objects – that inform how certain cultural, political and social tensions materialize in space and ‘naturalize’ certain processes of territorial attachment. The exhibition opens its doors on March 14, at 13h, will be on display until April 17.

The exhibition reveals an investigation that began in two other solo presentations by the artist: let’s play (Galeria Casa Triângulo, 2008) and incessante – incurável (Galeria Millan, 2011). While in the first show the approach emerged from implications of the artist’s description and of the artwork in the exhibition space, in the second instance, Rubens Mano looked into distinct defining aspects of the visible surface of the artistic universe. Now, the artist expands this investigation to processes of territorial attachment and their implications and expressions in the constitution of spaces. He says, “It is in the territory of the unstable that forms of the apparently stable are shaped.”

The solo exhibition will occupy all floors of Galeria Millan. On the ground floor, in addition to photographs (like the images from the series natureza privada) and objects, the artist will display an installation in the external area of the gallery, with the same title as the exhibition. On the first floor photographs and a video titled análise de sistemas will also be on display.

In social contract, Rubens Mano explores certain constitutive complexities of space, and how these complexities are revealed in multiple dimensions of private and public, individual and collective, natural and cultural life.