Oie, UNITED STATES! We are proud to announce CEMENT AND WATER, Lais Amaral’s (@lais__amaral) solo exhibition at M+B Gallery (@mblosangeles) in Los Angeles, California with text by Tarcisio Almeida (@jacinto_jasinto), HOA’s Artistic Development Curator. — Organized in three chapters - Settlements, Ruin of Color, and Magnetics - Cement and Water also takes the form of a relationship. Between territory and displacement, Amaral moves through Gamboa and Saúde - neighborhoods located in an area known as Little Africa in Rio de Janeiro. In that region, part of the sea was landed, like other parts of the natural landscape that were inhabited there before the construction of the city of Rio de Janeiro, as we know it today. Through the path between the place where she lives and the place where she imagines herself, the artist composes landscapes, ruins, and non-human characters as resonance and mapping of what she experiences. In this game of forces, (re)hydration of experience, what Amaral produces is a pictorial field that sometimes works as a testimony/text where our body is summoned to reading outside the known vernacular pattern and sometimes as a gaze of what it sees in us. Oxygenating to other ways of feeling our own places. "Making those paintings was a gesture of establishing the memory of water in this place. Dealing with its existence in all dimensions... as an offering given to the mystery that inhabits this crossroads where the wall and the ancient sea are." — OPENING DATES Saturday, September 24 from 6 to 8 pm M+B 612 N Almont Drive, Los Angeles, CA — From 24th SEPTEMBER to 22nd October 2022 — CONGRATULATIONS LAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSS 🎇🌅✨⭐️🌟🌠🌃🌞☀️🌄🌇🌻 #HOAinternational