Ernesto Neto: Vonta de vi dada dada

Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel presents Vonta de vi dada dada a new solo exhibition by Ernesto
Neto, opening simultaneously at the gallery’s Barra Funda and Jardins spaces in São Paulo.
Bringing together a new body of sculptural installations, works on paper, and textual
interventions, the exhibition expands the artist’s long-standing investigation into the
interdependence of bodies, materials, and living systems. Spread across the two venues,
sculptures made from crocheted cotton, braided cords, bamboo, corten steel, and clay take
on organic configurations that evoke insects, roots, mountains, forests, and other hybrid
forms, proposing sculpture as a field of relationships, movement, and continuous
transformation.
At the core of the exhibition is a new series of wall-based sculptures that Neto calls InsePás:
tensile, cellular structures that extend across walls, ceilings, and architectural corners like
living organisms or flows of energy moving through space. Developed from the artist’s earlier
investigations into suspension, balance, and relational structures, these works deepen his
understanding of sculpture as something activated through encounter rather than existing as
a static form. In dialogue with them is a monumental corten steel sculpture whose branching
structure simultaneously evokes a mountainous landscape and a living body sustained
through relations of balance and mutual support.
Taken together, the works transform the gallery into a permeable ecosystem rather than a
neutral exhibition space. Sculpture, drawing, writing, and sound come together as
expressions of a worldview shaped by cosmological thought, ecological interdependence,
and embodied knowledge. Rather than maintaining distinctions between nature and culture,
or between architecture and the body, the exhibition proposes an environment in which
human and nonhuman forms coexist in continuous exchange, reaffirming Neto’s
understanding that life is sustained through relationships, reciprocity, and the shared vitality
of all beings.