From September 3, 2025, to January 25, 2026, the Ministry of Culture, the Municipal Secretariat of Culture and Creative Economy of the City of São Paulo, the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo and the Instituto Tomie Ohtake jointly present Limiar [Threshold], Tarik Kiswanson’s first solo exhibition in São Paulo and part of the France in Brazil 2025 Season programme. The cultural exchange initiative is promoted by the French Institute and the Guimarães Rosa Institute (Itamaraty).
The installation, originally conceived for MAM São Paulo’s Glass Room, was adapted to occupy an entire room at the Institute, creating an architectural intervention that alters the perception of space. In Limiar [Threshold], the artist brings together three suspended elements: a chair from the Móveis Cimo factory, used in Brazilian immigration offices in the 1950s; a 19th-century Belgian Catholic church stool, a testament to the colonial circulation of sacred objects; and Cradle, a white, cocoon-shaped sculpture that suggests origin, absence and the potency of future. Gathered in the exhibition room, these elements create a sensitive space that invites reflection on identity, exile and belonging. More than representing historical narratives, the installation proposes an immersive and poetic experience in which the visible and the invisible intertwine.
Press release from Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo
Image: Tarik Kiswanson. Installation view of Limiar [Threshold] at Instituto Tomie Ohtake, 2025. Photography by Ding Musa. Image courtesy of MAM São Paulo
