Matheus Rocha Pitta's Cement Slabs at Galleria Alberto Peola

Matheus Rocha Pitta (born 1980 in Tiradentes, lives in Rio de Janeiro) creates reinforced cement slabs of various sizes, a material commonly used for roofing in Brazilian favelas. On their surfaces, he embeds dated clippings from newspapers and magazines that narrate stories of inequality, poverty, and civil wars, bridging past and present. His practice is characterized by a technical-artisanal process using poor materials, where the dialogue between solidity and vulnerability becomes a structural architecture of resistance, preserving local culture and collective memory. The exhibition is at Galleria Alberto Peola in Turin.