Press Release
Esther Schipper is pleased to announce Ensemble, bringing together works by Jac Leirner and Rafa Silvares. The exhibition marks Silvares's first and Leirner's third with the gallery. The year Silvares was born some hundred kilometers inland, Leirner completed her artistic education; decades later, Silvares would study at the same institute in São Paulo. Continuing their rich correspondence, the exhibition is a result of the artists's exchange within each other's universes. Taking the habit to pick up, sketch, and keep quotidian items as a point of departure, the artists's dialogue echoes an ode to collecting.
