SETAREH is thrilled to present Between Spaces, our first exhibition with Brazilian artist Cybèle Varela. Consistently questioned her contemporary landscape through painting, photography and video, Varela’s oeuvre now spans over half a century. With graphic sophistication, her work from the late 1960s astutely reflects on popular iconography to picture the ‘poetry of the peripheries’ in Brazilian daily life. A prominent figure of Tropicalismo, her Pop Art aesthetic of flattened and graphic images foregrounded the modern female in urban environments, capturing incipient feminism set amongst a multicultural yet essentially patriarchal modern life.