trick
Museum of Contemporary Art – USP
São Paulo, Brazil
Março – Junho 2025

curator: Marcela Vieira
institutional curator: Heloisa Espada

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Mateus Nunes – Did Ilê Sartuzi Rob the British Museum? (Frieze)

Trick consists of a series of subtle interventions — similar to magic tricks — that reveal infrastructural elements of institutional spaces dedicated to culture and art. These works involve technological security elements that are often invisible, playing with the visitor’s experience and focusing attention on peripheral aspects of the museum environment. The exhibition has two main cores: one of them orbits around “Sleight of Hand” (2023-2024) and the other is a series of “Propositions for museum security systems” (2023) that were first published in text format in Revista Rosa.