Deus abençoe o nosso amor - God Bless Our Love

/Carchíris

In her first exhibition, Deus abençoe o nosso amor (God Bless Our Love), Carchíris presents works developed during her most recent artistic residencies. Central to the exhibition is the awakening of her father’s memory, which becomes a guiding axis for reimagining futures and strengthening bonds. Through a series of propositions that examine her own roots, grounded in Maranhão soil and in the observation of paths, waters, and their encounters with the earth, the works become foundations for the construction of temples of rebirth and reconciliation, almost against the grain of her own history.

As the artist turns to the photographic records recently given to her by her mother, the images enter a field of affection and connection to what might have been. These images transform what was once felt as absence into a pulsing, living, reconciled, and mirrored presence.

Guided by the idea of blessing, which resonates in the title God Bless Our Love and in the ascensions through love and life philosophized by the reggae songs that pulse through Maranhão, we exalt existence and the transcendence of tenderness. We call upon divine elevation, where the desire for protection “in front, behind, and on all sides” and “from the elders to the youngest” touches the deepest layers of existence.

There is, therefore, a relationship between what has been and what one desires to become, reverberating as the fruit of what was felt, pursued, and blessed. This allows us to glimpse Carchíris’s poetics along the tenderest path of revealing the almost unlikely, shared with us through the delicate precision of her objects, paintings, and sculptures. These works do not seek figuration or linear meaning within traditional art-historical frameworks, but rather evoke a blessed sense of existence. Despite all detours, everything continues to be celebrated.