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  • View of “Marcia de Moraes,” 2018. From left: Realismo fantastico 1 (Fantastic Realism 1), 2018; O Olho (The Eye), 2018. Photo: Filipe Berndt.

    View of “Marcia de Moraes,” 2018. From left: Realismo fantastico 1 (Fantastic Realism 1), 2018; O Olho (The Eye), 2018. Photo: Filipe Berndt.

    Marcia de Moraes

    Galeria Leme

    Over the past decade, Marcia de Moraes has developed colorful, abstract drawings that explore coexistence, investigating and negotiating dichotomies such as vacuity and solidity, constriction and expansion, corporeality and abstraction, neurosis and calmness. Her use of similar recurring patterns, inspired by objects she photographs, has forged a recognizable visual lexicon that includes shapes reminiscent of abstracted tongues, teeth, eggs, leaves, vines, cylinders, cords, and spheres. This exhibition featured collages and visceral ceramic sculptures alongside her drawings, whose expansive

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