Hiram Latorre

Hiram Latorre has cultivated a painting practice rooted in recollections of places he has visited and the emotional resonance of memory, rendered through a lyrical and evocative visual language. His recent works draw on historical art references, from interior scenes and still lifes to echoes of Matisse, modernist design, and pop art. These influences form the framework for intimate compositions that feel like passages from a 19th-century novel or a meticulously curated photo album. Within his interior depictions—whether drawn from memory or imagination—Eastern motifs on ceramics and textiles coexist with Brazilian furnishings, creating environments that are simultaneously familiar and dreamlike. Latorre’s background in architecture and fashion informs his compositional approach, blending structured real-world perspectives with contemplative, poetic spaces. He often frames his scenes with ornamental borders or subtle fragments, such as the edge of a rug or tabletop, guiding the viewer through the work. The interplay of muted and vibrant tones, from golds to deep reds, alongside layered textures and patterns, gives his canvases a dynamic, almost floating quality. By balancing tangible forms with ethereal elements, Latorre transforms ordinary objects and interiors into suspended moments, inviting viewers to inhabit a transient, imagined space where time and narrative unfold gently and suggestively. ...

Founded in São Paulo in 2011, Galeria Jaqueline Martins is a space for research, documentation and presentation of contemporary artistic production. It proposes collaborative curatorial strategies that foster dialogue between different generations and different cultural perspectives. One of its guiding principles is the encouragement of research-oriented conceptualist practices characterized by critical, even subversive, approaches. Since its inauguration, the gallery has developed a special program around the investigation of artistic productions carried out during the Brazilian military period – more specifically from the 1970s and 1980s. It promotes a historical revision of processes grounded on strong intellectual resistance, audacity and commitment to art and which transformed the artistic practice in the country, but nonetheless were neglected throughout the last decades. By integrating research and practice that confront the contemporary scene by means of its exhibition program, the gallery encourages the revival of the debate that conceives of artistic actions as contact zones for the exercise of aesthetic, social and political change. In 2020 the gallery opened its second exhibition space, in Brussels, aiming to expand our presence in Europe and to develop a multidisciplinary program that will foster connections between our artists and Brazilian art practices in an international context. ...