Vai e Vem / Back and Forth

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This article discusses the exhibition Vai e Vem / Back and Forth, composed of works by Canadian artists Duncan MacDonald and Ehryn Torrell, and Brazilian artists Jefferson Kielwagen and Nilton Tirotti. The exhibition, which brings together and creates tension in works of art from geographically and culturally different contexts, took place in the cities of Joinville, in Santa Catarina, Brazil, and in St Catharine, in the province of Ontario, Canada. The curatorial thinking was built in an exercise of exchanges, dialogues and tensions established in the development of the artists’ proposals, at a distance, which resulted in an exhibition that highlighted the power and subtlety of art. Although it was not made explicit in the artists’ discourse, the reflection on the works and the exhibition space made it possible to think about the North-South relations, not in a geographical but in an epistemological sense.