Brazilian artist and filmmaker Cao Guimarães’s first solo exhibition in Paris comprises a concise selection of photographs from three different series and five short films spanning work produced in the last ten years. His current exhibit, Gambiarras, is a Portuguese term that describes the act of creating an improvised solution to something that has broken.  Gambiarras can be seen as an anthropological mapping of the ingeniousness and creativity that result from limited means and informal, unreliable markets and societies.

Guimarães comments on the spontaneity inherent in the everyday of Brazilian/ Latin American/ Third World experience. A window that won’t stay open is held by a chopping board; a torn bra strip is “fixed” with a paper clip; the loose wires in a 1950s car ignition are joined by clothes pegs, and so on. Complementing this series is a 30-minute short, Mestres da Gambiarra [Gambiarra Masters] portraying unique Brazilian creators explaining their inventions.

March 26 – May 14

Galerie Xippas
108, rue Vieille du Temple, 75003
Metro: Filles du Calvaire or Saint Sebastian Froissard

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