Felippe Moraes
By Alexandre Sá

In his second individual exhibition at MAC-Niterói Felippe Moraes interprets a change in the pace of his production, he now brings ordinary elements coming from the world of things and sustains a dialogue with the general public, trhough samba and its inevitable body memory.

Rhythm arises as an element of communion and harmony, joy and melancholy deriving from the ability of surviving, which is at times forgottten. For this series, the artist renounces any tipe of semantic code that could become hermetic, and opts for a generous and extremely direct contact with the audience.

The sentences that we look at are exactly what we look at: the remembrance of an overwhelming delight that is the foundation of the strutcture of what being a Brazilian really is.

The lyrics taken from popular songs earn even more intensity through the neons and the union of word and image. They now keep an atmosferic doubt that is if we could in fact rediscover such vibrations and reinvent this load of sensations that needed to be silent during this time of pandemic, all of that displayed on this landscape-architecture.

With this in mind, this exhibition is beyond an affirmation, it is a request that we all have the courage to keep samba safe and that it never dies.