Originating at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo and organized by Rodrigo Moura and Isabella Rjeille, this exhibition of works by Djanira da Motta e Silva (1914–1979)—or simply Djanira, as she is more commonly known—showcased nearly four decades of paintings by the primarily self-taught artist of working-class origin and indigenous ancestry. Often dismissed as “naive” or “primitive” (one American reviewer observed that a painting of hers would look at home on the cover of a New Yorker), the artist’s oeuvre has been symbolically effaced from the canon of Brazilian art, lending all the more the