On the occasion of his first exhibition in Brazil, American conceptual artist Tom Burr presents a group of new works produced during his stay in Sao Paulo. Over the past thirty years, Burr has been investigating the relation of his own body to given sites, legacies of historical personas and forms of abstraction.  

Drawing on two parallel elements: the Metaesquemas by Hélio Oiticica and the modernist house occupied by auroras (both from the year 1957), the artist establishes relations between "a constructive will" of the formulations of the New Objectivity and something of the American Minimalist and Conceptual experience. Burr's trajectory is marked by the use of references to queer figures.

In this case, Burr chose Oiticica as the pivotal figure to reflect on his own subjectivity. As Tom Burr stated “I was curious to think about where Oiticica ends and I begin, or where I end and he begins”.