
Re-selvagem
Eva Jospin
The exhibition "Re-Selvagem", by French artist Eva Jospin, presents a kind of reinvented jungle in the Eye and Araucaria Space of the Oscar Niemeyer Museum (MON). Curated by Marcello Dantas, the new international exhibition brings together nine large-scale works, including installations and drawings, as well as two videos. The raw materials for the installations are silk embroidery, cardboard, wood, bronze, fabric and other materials. The artist transforms these everyday raw materials and creates a living landscape.
Artist
Eva Jospin
Curatorship
Marcello Dantas
Exhibition period
From 5 de junho de 2025
Until 10 de agosto de 2025
Location
Eye and Araucaria Space
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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.
Images
Photograph credits: Benoît Fougeirol
Photograph credits: Benoît Fougeirol
Photograph credits: Benoît Fougeirol
Photograph credits: Benoît Fougeirol
Photograph credits: Benoît Fougeirol
Photograph credits: Benoît Fougeirol
Photograph credits: Benoît Fougeirol
Photograph credits: Benoît Fougeirol
Photograph credits: Benoît Fougeirol
Materiais da Exposição
Eva Jospin is renowned for her meticulous, handcrafted creations that evoke imagined worlds—silent architectures and lush natural landscapes—brought to life through the patient, almost obsessive act of restoring a sense of origin to original material.
Using something as ordinary as corrugated cardboard—a mass-produced, industrial material made from forest cellulose—Jospin creates entire jungles. In ReSelvagem, this alchemy becomes even more intense: layers of cardboard are intricately cut and stacked to form trunks, roots, and branches, composing a dense, labyrinthine forest. Each sculpture feels like an excavation into the memory of the medium—where the mundane is transformed into the sublime and everyday scraps become living landscapes.
For Jospin, the forest is more than a representation of nature. It’s a symbolic space, a place where mystery, transformation, and the unexpected reside. Like in ancient tales, her forests are territories where we lose ourselves to find ourselves again. In ReSelvagem, visitors move through winding paths of paper and shadow, stepping into sculpted realms of foliage and form—a quiet, intimate ritual of immersion. These shapes awaken forgotten memories, stir the collective unconscious, and summon a deep, contemplative silence.
The contemplative dimension of her work is also explored in Chambre de Soie (Silk Room)—one of the artist’s major works, consisting of an artwork embroidered with over 400 shades of silk, cotton, and jute threads, produced by artisans from the Chanakya Atelier and the Chanakya School of Craft in Mumbai, India. Inspired by the tapestries adorning the halls of Rome’s Palazzo Colonna and Virginia Woolf’s essay A Room of One’s Own, the installation spans over 350 square meters of landscapes based on Jospin’s own drawings. First unveiled during Dior’s haute couture show, Chambre de Soie reimagines the grand panoramas of the 19th century, drawing viewers into a quiet meditation on the rhythm of handcrafted gestures. The threads and figures compose an intricate garden, almost as detailed as the manicured landscapes of Versailles; however, they are made of time and memory.
This experience, situated between natural forest and crafted embroidery, the artificial and the natural, the physical material and intangible symbol is the result of a unique visual language Jospin has refined over the years. Her work has been featured in some of the world’s most prominent institutions: including the Palais de Tokyo, the Musée du Louvre, Villa Medici, Palazzo Fortuny in Venice, and the Orangerie at Versailles. Her art doesn’t command attention through scale, rather it draws intensity from the silence of contemplation.
ReSelvagem is a call to return—the material to the forest, the craft to the hand, and the gaze to the imagination. Jospin reminds us that even what’s been tamed, cut, and transformed can, through art, recover its power and vitality—and lead us back to the vast mystery we carry within.
Note:
Re-Selvagem will be occupying the Eye of the Oscar Niemeyer Museum in Curitiba, as well as the second floor of Casa Bradesco at Cidade Matarazzo in São Paulo. The exhibition arrives in Brazil as part of the France-Brazil Cultural Season and serves as a prelude to Eva Jospin’s forthcoming monumental installation at the Grand Palais in Paris, scheduled for late 2025.
Marcello Dantas
Curator
The sensitivity of French artist Eva Jospin is evident in the Oscar Niemeyer Museum's new project: the exhibition "Re-Selvagem". By approaching nature and time in poetic works of art, she evokes our emotional memory.
In a fast-paced world, the face-to-face space of museums is the perfect balance to our digital saturation. The physical encounter with art makes people recognize themselves and their history through the works. This is and should always be one of the roles of the museum: to awaken deep feelings from our unconscious.
In the case of MON’s Eye privileged exhibition space, this encounter is enhanced. Far beyond a conventional white exhibition room with four walls, this is a unique place.
Just as people have the power to adapt, the Eye changes in creative and unusual ways with each new exhibition. And this one, signed by Eva Jospin, is probably one of the most surprising that has ever been here.
Her work puts the viewer inside it, gives it new meaning and awakens curiosity. In a provocative and intelligent contrast, it speaks of the impermanence of matter and the permanence of art. By creating giant installations out of apparently fragile raw materials such as silk and cardboard, the artist makes us think.
What seems disposable becomes a lasting work of art.
In this way, Eva Jospin addresses our relationship with nature and, consequently, with our essence. The visitor's gaze will be challenged all the time to notice something more. And the visitor will certainly notice.
Juliana Vellozo Almeida Vosnika
CEO of the Oscar Niemeyer Museum
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Características da exposição
Estímulo físico
Restrição de movimento
Estímulo Sonoro
Local com ruído
Estímulo Sonoro
Som inesperado
Estímulo Sonoro
Local silencioso
Estímulo Visual
Luz oscilante
Estímulo Visual
Luz natural
Estímulo Visual
Luz reduzida
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