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On November 13, 2025 the Institute hosted ‘Inhabited Worlds / Each Head, a World’ featuring the art of Felipe Bastos and Mariana Mascarenhas. The show was many different approaches to human identity, perception, and the construction of the world — whether on an intimate, subjective scale centered on individual experience, or on a collective level, exploring the interactions and exchanges that shape us as a community.
Mariana creates symbolic vessels to reconnect body and mind, expand the imagination, and nurture human vitality and Felipe’s photos capture the city as an organism in constant flux, where the monumental dissolves into the whole and attention to detail reveals the dynamics of relationships and objects.
Together, the works invite viewers to suspend habitual ways of seeing, allowing themselves to be carried into moments of surprise, contemplation, and discovery. Between faceless heads and fragments of the street, between the intimate and the collective, the exhibition is an invitation to reflect on how we perceive, feel, and imagine the worlds we inhabit, transforming the act of seeing into a gesture of poetic creation.
A very special thank-you to Cristiana Mascarenhas and Inplus for making the event possible.
Part of the collection was later shown at the Brazilian Consulate in New York as part of the project ‘arte brasileira no consulado’, on view from November 18 to January 30, 2026.
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