MON holds new international exhibition at the Eye
"Re-Selvagem", by French artist Eva Jospin, is the next international exhibition at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum (MON). The exhibition will open on june 5th, at MON’s Eye and Espaço Araucária. Marcello Dantas is the curator.
The exhibition will feature nine large-scale works, including installations and drawings, as well as two videos. The raw material for the installations is silk embroidery and cardboard, but the artist also uses wood, bronze, fabric and other materials.
"Eva Jospin's arrival at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum reinforces our mission to connect Paraná's public with the most relevant contemporary art in the world," says the Secretary of State for Culture, Luciana Casagrande Pereira. "This exhibition also reaffirms the cultural diplomacy guidelines that Paraná has established with France, in a particularly significant year, marked by the celebrations of the Year of Brazil in France and France in Brazil."
MON director Juliana Vosnika says that the sensitivity of French artist Eva Jospin is evident in this exhibition. "By approaching nature and time in poetic works of art, she evokes our emotional memory," she says.
Juliana comments that the physical encounter with art makes people recognize themselves and their history through the works. "In a fast-paced world, the face-to-face space of museums is the perfect balance for our digital saturation," he says. "This is and should always be one of the roles of the museum: to awaken deep feelings from our unconscious."
Curator Marcello Dantas says that Eva Jospin is known for her meticulous work of creating, with her own hands, illusions of an imaginary world - silent architectures and abundant natural spaces, which are born from the patient and obsessive gesture of restoring a sense of origin to matter.
"For Jospin, the forest is more than a representation of nature. It's a symbolic place where mystery, the unexpected and transformation take place," says Dantas. "As in ancient tales, its forests are territories where we lose ourselves in order to find ourselves again." In "Re-Selvagem", the visitor crosses trails of paper and shadow, enters universes of sculpted foliage, experiencing a kind of intimate rite. The shapes evoke forgotten memories, awaken images from the collective unconscious, provoke silence.
The artist
Eva Jospin was born in Paris (1975), where she graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. For the last fifteen years, she has been creating meticulous forests and architectural landscapes, which he explores through various media. Drawn in ink or embroidered, sculpted in cardboard or bronze, her works evoke Italian baroque gardens, 18th century rocaille decorations and artificial caves. She was resident at the Villa Medici in Rome in 2017 and elected to the Sculpture section of the Academy of Fine Arts in 2024.
Her international exhibitions include: Inside at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2014); Sous-Bois at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara (2018); Eva Jospin - Wald(t)räume at the Museum Pfalzgalerie in Kaiserslautern (2019); Among the trees at Hayward Gallery in London (2020); Paper Tales at Het Noordbrabants Museum in Den Bosch (2021); Galleria at Musée de la Chasse et Nature in Paris (2021); Panorama at Fondation Thalie in Brussels (2023); and Palazzo at Palais des Papes in Avignon (2023).
In 2024, she presented two new solo exhibitions: Jungle, at Museo Fortuny in Venice, during the 60th Venice Biennale, and Eva Jospin-Versailles at the Orangerie of Château de Versailles. She has developed several large-scale installations as part of special commissions, including Panorama (2016) in the center of the Louvre's Cour Carrée and Cénotaphe (2020) in Montmajour Abbey. She also created a series of embroidered panels for the Dior Haute Couture 2021-2022 show (Chambre de Soie, 2021).
The curator
Marcello Dantas is a renowned Brazilian curator, artistic director and producer, recognized for his interdisciplinary approach integrating art, technology and immersive sensory experiences. Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1968, Dantas has a diverse academic background: he studied International Relations and Diplomacy in Brasilia, Art History and Film Theory in Florence, and graduated in Film and Television from New York University, where he also did postgraduate studies in Interactive Telecommunications.
Throughout his career, Marcello Dantas has been responsible for the design and artistic direction of various museums and pavilions, both in Brazil and abroad. He is also known for curating high-impact exhibitions that attract large audiences and specialized critics. Among them "Ai Weiwei: Raiz", by Chinese artist Ai WeiWei, and "Invisível e Indizível", by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa, both at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum.
