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The Approach is pleased to present Anderson Borba Secret Ceremony, the Brazilian artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Borba lives and works in both London and São Paulo. Through his practice he seeks textural ambiguity, twisting and expanding the material and conceptual possibilities of wood, creating autonomous totems or hanging wall reliefs.
A distinctive feature of Borba’s approach is the synthesis of traditional techniques with contemporary modes of expression, such as digitally manipulated images where the boundaries between image and material blur. Borba’s practice involves negotiating with materials to determine the final form of his works. The artist carves, burns, paints, presses, and manipulates these elements in a process-driven construction, resulting in rough, cracked, yet seductive body shapes.
Influenced by both the historical canon of sculpture and the self-taught artists of Brazil’s interior, Borba operates within a complex interplay between concept and…
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The Approach is pleased to present Anderson Borba Secret Ceremony, the Brazilian artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Borba lives and works in both London and São Paulo. Through his practice he seeks textural ambiguity, twisting and expanding the material and conceptual possibilities of wood, creating autonomous totems or hanging wall reliefs.
A distinctive feature of Borba’s approach is the synthesis of traditional techniques with contemporary modes of expression, such as digitally manipulated images where the boundaries between image and material blur. Borba’s practice involves negotiating with materials to determine the final form of his works. The artist carves, burns, paints, presses, and manipulates these elements in a process-driven construction, resulting in rough, cracked, yet seductive body shapes.
Influenced by both the historical canon of sculpture and the self-taught artists of Brazil’s interior, Borba operates within a complex interplay between concept and…
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