Fernanda Alvarez: colour expands into the room

Fernanda Alvarez’s paintings did not stop at the edge of the canvas in Magic Roads. A colour-led installation extended their register into the gallery, making the room part of the encounter.

WAYFARER’s August 2025 account described the artist’s first solo exhibition at White Box, within Rosewood São Paulo and Cidade Matarazzo. Eleven mixed-media works were presented in the historical period from 27 August to 24 September.

Layers rather than one medium

Acrylic, oil, resin, graphite, glitter and other materials gave the surfaces different densities. The works were organised around Magic Roads and Innerbloom, with intuition and spirituality among the artist’s stated references.

A rubber duck introduced humour into that field. Its ordinary, recognisable form gave the more abstract surfaces a small point of interruption rather than supplying a complete explanation.

Kleber Matheus’s exhibition design carried colour from floor to ceiling. The archive connected that treatment with the expansive character of the paintings.

Alvarez’s earlier Print Bar, operated between 2017 and 2020, had provided a setting for experiments with customised clothing and accessories. Subsequent public-art and international plans mentioned in the source are not claimed here as completed projects.

The exhibition’s useful subject is the transition between practices: material experimentation from an earlier creative setting entered painting, then moved beyond the canvas into the room.

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Adapted from the WAYFARER Brazil archive, first published 2025-08-20. English adaptation: 6 October 2026. This is an archival account, not a report of a new visit. Exhibitions, collections and menu details are described in their original context, not as current availability.