DRAWING ROOM 2025

Art Fair
23 - 26.10. 2025
This Is Not A White Cube

IMPERMANENTIA

 

For Drawing Room 2025, THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE presents Impermanentia, a curated selection of works by three contemporary artists— ANA MALTA, ANTÓNIO FARIA, andCÁSSIO MARKOWSKI—who, through their distinctive drawing practices, engage with the transient nature of memory, identity, and existence. This project brings together three artistic universes that, while differing in approach, share a subtle exploration of the notions of transformation, fragility, and the passage of time. 

 

ANA MALTA's artistic practice is deeply rooted in the exploration of the intimate relationships between the body, memory, and domestic spaces through her expressive pastel drawings. Her drawings, often characterized by spontaneous and almost childlike figuration, are imbued with vibrant colors and layered textures, allowing the body to emerge as a living archive of stories and emotions. By navigating the thresholds of the personal and the universal, Ana Malta's practice transforms the body into a matrix of memories, elevating everyday experiences into symbols of identity, belonging, and the delicate balance between past and present. 

 

Her drawings, created through expressive gestures and the layering of forms, not only give shape to the ephemeral but also reflect the tension between permanence and transience. Through the incorporation of Portuguese idiomatic expressions and their reinvention through neologism, Ana Malta creates a visual dialogue that intertwines language with memory, experience, and visual representation, inviting the viewer to engage in an emotional and sensory experience. In Impermanentia, her works materialize a continuous process of transformation, capturing the fragility of memory and identity through the mutable nature of her visual language.