Brazil's 2026 Venice Biennale pavilion, curated by Diane Lima, presents a radical, sensorial exhibition titled 'Comigo ninguém pode' featuring artists Adriana Varejão and Rosana Paulino. The show transforms the modernist pavilion into an active participant, where historical and new works by the two artists create friction and resonance, exploring themes of colonial violence, the Black female body as archive, and spiritual resistance.
The presentation matters as a significant intervention in the tradition of national pavilions, rejecting a harmonious narrative in favor of a disruptive, non-linear encounter. It reframes the pavilion's architecture as a site of embodied history and proposes a counter-archive rooted in lived experience and spirituality, challenging institutional authority and linear time at one of the art world's most prestigious international events.