Miami and the Unmasking of a Slowing Market – 2025
Two weeks after the major New York auction houses collectively achieved over $2.2 billion in sales, the art world naturally expected this momentum to spill over into Art Basel Miami, an extension of the end-of-year market cycle that traditionally attracts an active mix of American and Latin American collectors.
However, this year told a different story. The market’s apparent vitality proved to be an illusion: very few key clients are on the ground, the usual excitement is noticeably absent, preview purchases were limited, and several Brazilian galleries even withdrew entirely from the fair, choosing instead to prioritise the increasingly strategic Paris edition. Among them are Luisa Strina and Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel (absent since 2024), joined by international galleries that represent major Brazilian artists, such as Alison Jacques for Lygia Clark or Peter Kilchmann for Fernanda Gomes, who also opted not to return this year.
Brazilian Cosmogonies: Revisiting the Concept of Memory
On October 4, 2025, Sophie Su invites the public to the opening of Brazilian Cosmogonies, an exhibition presented in collaboration with Natalie Seroussi as part of the France-Brazil Season. Conceived as a curatorial journey, the show intertwines modern and contemporary voices to explore how myths, memory, and identity continue to be shaped by the scars of colonization and the power of cultural reappropriation. Structured around cosmogonies, symbols, and vital forces, Brazilian Cosmogonies resonates with Indigenous cosmologies, Afro-descendant legacies, modernist reinterpretations, and contemporary expressions of ancestry. It proposes a visual and conceptual dialogue in which ancestral mythologies converge with avant-garde experimentation and living artistic practices. But to grasp the true stakes of this exhibition, one must return to the roots of Brazil itself.
ArtRio 2025: A Snapshot of Brazil’s Contemporary Art
ArtRio has consolidated itself as one of the leading art fairs in Latin America. In 2024, its 14th edition gathered around 90 exhibitors and welcomed over 60,000 visitors, attracting international collectors and curators from museums and private collections. Highlights such as the Contemporary Brazil program and the Sculpture Garden reinforced the relevance of Brazilian production, including Indigenous artists, even amid global economic challenges.
Rethinking the Art Market – 2025
Long before occupying the walls of museums and collectors’ homes, art was born as a magical gesture. It was a language between worlds, a symbolic, social, and spiritual code. In ancient cultures, art was not separate from life, much less from collective experience.In ancient cultures, art was never separated from life, serving as ritual, power, philosophy, and presence simultaneously.
France–Brazil : Centuries of Interwoven Visions in Art – 2025
The cultural season between France and Brazil has officially begun — and it’s more than a celebration; it’s a centuries-long story of artistic exchange and mutual inspiration. From the legacy of the French Artistic Mission to the groundbreaking dialogues of modernist artists and avant-garde movements, to the reciprocal influence of the great masters of abstraction, we trace the vibrant threads that have long intertwined the cultural identities of both nations across the Atlantic.This journey through shared creativity offers a deeper lens into the forces shaping today’s bold and ambitious cultural collaborations between Brazil and France.