Anderson Borba
“Anderson Borba’s sculptures employ industrial-grade wood, cardboard, textiles as well as vintage lifestyle and fashion magazines. These materials form his starting point. The artist carves, burns, paints over, presses and manipulates these elements in a process-guided construction, resulting in rugged bodily forms, cracked but seductive. Influenced as much by the historical canon of sculptures as by the self-taught carvers of inner Brazil, Anderson Borba operates in a complex arrangement between concept and experience, dislocating and unraveling the physical body to the point of anthropomorphic abstraction. ”
Among his recent solo and dual exhibitions are ‘Thinking Hands’, Francois Ghebaly, New York (2024), ‘Anderson Borba + Dudi Maia Rosa’, Auroras, São Paulo, Brasil (2023), ‘Anderson Borba + Erika Verzutti’, Pivô, São Paulo, Brasil (2023), ‘I’ve seen one of these’, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo, Brazil (2022); ‘The End Begins at the Leaf’— Anderson Borba & Antonio Tarsis, BeAdvisors Art, London(2021); ‘Anderson Borba & Alex Canonico’, Kupfer Gallery, London, (2021) and Ride the Worm, Set Gallery, London, UK (2018).He has also taken part in the group shows; ‘On Feeling’, The Approach, London (2024), ‘Nunca só essa mente, nunca só esse mundo’, Carpintaria, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2023); ‘Comporta’ 2023, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel + kurimanzutto, Comporta, Portugal (2023); ‘Para-raios para energias confusas,’ Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo, Brazil (2023); ‘Eccentric spaces’, The Artist Room, London, UK; ‘I Could Eat You’, Clearing + Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel + Madragoa, Casa de Cultura da Comporta, Comporta, Portugal (2022); and ‘Tragédia!’, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo, Brazil (2022).
