PARIS+ PAR ART BASEL

A Gentil Carioca presents, for Paris+ 2022 (stand F10), a solo show by Maxwell Alexandre. The works are part of the series New Power, an offshoot of Pardo é Papel, made to explore the idea of the black community within the established temples for art contemplation: galleries and museums. Understanding contemporary art as an elite field that concentrates great financial and intellectual capital, the series seeks to draw attention of the black community to these spaces that legitimize narratives in the history. The series works with only three basic signs, the black (characters), the white ("white cube" or exhibition space) and the brown (art).