The citywide, large-scale group exhibition “artevida” (artlife) examined the relationship between art and life around the time of the Brazilian military dictatorship, which lasted from 1964 to 1985. The show, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, artistic director of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, with Rodrigo Moura, director of the Instituto Inhotim near Belo Horizonte, revolved around three by-now iconic artists: Lygia Pape, Lygia Clark, and Hélio Oiticica, all of whom practiced in Rio de Janeiro during that era and—together with Amilcar de Castro, Franz Weissmann, and others—gave birth to