Carmen Portinho
Editorial, Exhibition Design, Identity
An engineer, urban planner, feminist, and decisive figure in the history of MAM Rio, Carmen Portinho dedicated her life to designing a fairer country through culture, technology, and social emancipation. The exhibition brings together works that reflect her involvement in social housing, the feminist movement, and arts education, while also revealing her fundamental role in building the museum itself. In dialogue with the exhibition design by Juliana Sicuro and Gávea Arquitetura, the show presents a trajectory that pushed against professional and political boundaries, reaffirming the continued relevance of a woman who made the act of designing both a cause and an effect of transformation.
“I think you should dream the earth, because it has a heart and breathes.” The sentence that opens the book also opens the editorial project, guiding an open visual identity that breathes, welcomes, and warms. Terra Sem Males connects the Guarani myth of a life without suffering with the work of ten artists. Written by João Vergara, the book weaves together art, history, and imagination to ask how we might live better on an imperfect earth.
Led by IMPA, Impa Tech is a college dedicated to applied mathematics. Its identity balances two temporalities: the solidity of an institution born with a classical vocation and the openness of a future-facing digital modernism.
At Mirá, ancestral Japanese techniques, natural fermentation, and Brazilian ingredients turn bread into a territory of research and memory. It is an independent bakery built between tradition, discovery, time, and care.
Cuba: Ficción y Fantasía spans more than three decades of the country’s artistic production. Across different generations and languages, the exhibition reveals how imagination, spirituality, humor, and criticism become ways of reinventing Cuban reality.
