Impossible flowers bloom from an imagined ocean floor: “Tramas” brings embroidery, ceramics, and textile installation to Centro Cultural Correios RJ from March 25.
Visual artist Patrícia Secco opens “Tramas” (Weaves) on March 25, 2026, filling rooms I and II on the 3rd floor of the Centro Cultural Correios Rio de Janeiro. Curated by Carlos Bertão and with expographic design by Alê Teixeira, the exhibition weaves together embroidered canvases, painted masks, a textile installation, and ceramic sculptures into a sensory journey where Brazil, myth, and dream converge.
A Universe Stitched Stitch by Stitch
The embroidered canvases work as sensitive cartographies. Lines unfold into rivers, roots, and inner pathways — each stitch a pulsing memory, a gesture that sutures the invisible.
The painted masks reveal the multiplicity of the Brazilian imagination: tropical fauna and flora, popular festivals, Afro-Indigenous narratives, rituals, and enchantment. They emerge as symbolic guardians of a vibrant, plural identity.
The textile installation is a living organism. Fabric birds float like dream fragments; fish drift between layers; and red threads stitch the space like living arteries. The color red guides the eye, symbolizing life, passion, fertile earth, and pulse — a thread connecting sky and sea, flight and depth.
Atlantis Flowers in White Ceramic
The most dreamlike core of the exhibition was born from a deep personal vision: the artist imagined the ocean floor receding, exposing impossible, ethereal flowers. The white ceramics echo the mythology of Atlantis — blooms that have no place in the world’s botany, yet flourish in memory and in the frontier between the real and the mythic. White, because they carry the silence and luminosity of what is revealed when everything submerges — like fossils from a lost garden.
“Tramas” celebrates the encounter between matter and myth, tradition and imagination, Brazil and Atlantis. A sensory crossing where each work is a fragment of earth, a woven gesture, and a breath of dream.
Aesthetics of Regeneration and Environmental Awareness
Against the backdrop of global climate change, “Tramas” offers a counterpoint to collapse narratives. Through what the exhibition calls the “Aesthetics of Regeneration”, the works inhabit the space lightly — using the flexibility of fibers and the transparency of materials to embody a vision of environmental harmony.
Under Alê Teixeira’s direction, the expographic design pushes past rigid walls, creating an immersive, ethereal path. Focal lighting highlights textures and projected shadows, transforming the gallery rooms into a fully three-dimensional experience.
Parallel Programming
Four events accompany the exhibition throughout its run:
March 25 (Opening): Vernissage and launch of the “Dream Net” — a collective action in which visitors tie their hopes for peace and the future onto a net installed in the gallery. An inaugural guided tour with Patrícia Secco and Carlos Bertão is also planned.
Textile Upcycling Workshop: A hands-on creative workshop using repurposed materials, centered on sustainability practices.
Panel Discussion “Art, Climate, and the Dream”: A conversation with the creative team and guests from the arts and environmental sectors.
May 9 (Closing): Finissage celebrating the collective Dream Net built by visitors throughout the entire exhibition run.
The Team Behind “Tramas”
Patrícia Secco is a Rio-born architect who, nearly thirty years ago, enrolled at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University in Washington, DC, receiving three awards in 1996 and 1997. Her career spans solo and group exhibitions in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Brasília, Salvador, London, Paris, Rome, Lisbon, Washington, New York, and Miami — including a show at the Museu do Meio Ambiente (Museum of the Environment).
Carlos Bertão is a Rio-born lawyer with a master’s degree in Comparative International Law from NYU. After nearly two decades at the World Bank in Washington, he retired in 2003 and turned to art curation. His landmark project was CONSCIÊNCIA, an exhibition by Peruvian artist Ivan Ciro Palomino produced by the United Nations and held at Centro Cultural Correios RJ (2019–2020), which drew 143,524 visitors.
Alê Teixeira is a dentist from Paraná state, based in Rio de Janeiro, who has devoted two decades to exhibition design and lighting. Together with Bertão, he co-founded ENTREARTE, an advisory firm for visual artists, and has contributed to projects featuring the work of more than 50 artists.
Visitor Information
Exhibition “Tramas”
Artist: Patrícia Secco
Curator: Carlos Bertão
Expographic Design: Alê Teixeira
Opening: March 25, 2026
Dates: March 25 – May 9, 2026
Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 12 pm – 7 pm
Venue: Centro Cultural Correios Rio de Janeiro — Rooms I and II, 3rd floor — Rua Visconde de Itaboraí, 20, Centro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Admission: Free | All ages welcome
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible
Getting there: Metro (Uruguaiana station, exit toward Rua da Alfândega); bus (stops near Rua Primeiro de Março, Praça XV, or Candelária); ferries (Terminal Praça XV); VLT tram (Av. Rio Branco/Uruguaiana or Praça XV); train (Central station + VLT to Av. Rio Branco/Uruguaiana).
Press contact: Paula Ramagem (@paulasoaresramagem)
Photo: Divulgação
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