O horror, o humor e o absurdo

Casa de Cultura do Parque presents, from March 28 to June 28, 2026, the exhibition “Horror, Humor and the Absurd” (Galeria do Parque), as part of its I Exhibition Cycle. Curated by José Augusto Ribeiro, the group show brings together works by Darks Miranda (Fortaleza, 1985), Flávia Metzler (Rio de Janeiro, 1974), Ivan Cardoso (Rio de Janeiro, 1952), and Yuli Yamagata (São Paulo, 1989) to reflect on a contemporary production marked by imaginative and ambiguous aspects.

Through films, paintings, and sculptures, the works offer visual experiences of saturation and contradiction, in which irregularity and monstrosity operate as strategies to challenge reality. “The idea is to examine how the combination of terror and comedy produces results with a force of insubordination: both in confronting the norms and developing languages that go beyond the boundaries between genres and artistic manifestations,” says the curator.

The exhibition features films by Ivan Cardoso — the master of “terrir,” a term he coined in the 1970s (a mix of terror and humor). The filmmaker brings together contrasting references in frame-by-frame collages that articulate Tropicália, German Expressionist cinema, Hélio Oiticica, Zé do Caixão, Brazilian marginal cinema, comic book narratives, sensationalist journalism, concrete poetry, among other elements, without assigning a fixed meaning to the dialogues created.

Yuli Yamagata — who has recently begun producing short videos — internalizes in her works references from horror cinema, animation, and Japanese comics, as well as the logic of ultra-processed goods. This field of interest focuses on low-cost industrial production formulas (for factories) and high risk (for consumers), based on chemical additives, thus establishing a kind of “transgenic reality.”

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Curated by José Augusto Ribeiro.