Paulo Nimer Pjota: Na Boca do Sol II

François Ghebaly is proud to present Na Boca do Sol II , Paulo Nimer Pjota's latest exhibition at the Los Angeles gallery. Brazilian artist Paulo Nimer Pjota has long engaged painting as a recombinative practice, collapsing historical epochs and iconographic traditions within a signature transhistorical visual vocabulary. In his work, pre-Columbian pottery sits beside Flemish still life, Grecian amphorae overflow with mythic reference, and the pastoral landscapes of the Brazilian countryside bleed into arcane cartographies of dream and navigation. His newest exhibition, titled Na Boca do Sol II or "The Mouth of the Sun," references a 1972 recording by Brazilian composer Arthur Verocai—a sun-drenched meditation on life in the provinces that, decades later, was heavily sampled by music producers in Los Angeles. Past sounds resurface in new contexts, mirroring the logic of Pjota's paintings themselves, where histories are compressed and reanimated through symbols that transform across time and geographic place.