A selection of essays, curatorial texts, and interviews on the work of Felippe Moraes, gathering different critical readings of his artistic production. Texts Essays, curatorial texts, and articles about the work. 2026 Composição AleatóriaAmanda Abi Khalil – MAC Niterói, 2026“The sculpture asks for cooperation without demanding consensus. It reminds us that a common rhythm emerges through difference, negotiation, and the willingness to remain present with one another.” 2025 SolfejoMarc Pottier – CAIXA Cultural Curitiba, 2025“He offers his Solfejo to encourage us to reinvent our own harmonies. An invitation to survival!” Tudo é perigoso, tudo é divino e (ainda é) maravilhosoVictor Gorgulho – CAIXA Cultural Rio de Janeiro, 2025“Moraes evokes the samba of the city where he was born and invites us to dance amid other possibilities of celestial encounters.” 2024 Artista-alquimista / Artist-AlchemistVictor Gorgulho – CAIXA Cultural Brasília, 2024“Perhaps this is where much of the artist’s generosity resides: to join the artist in commanding, deciphering, and investigating his works.” 2021 Felicidade Clandestina / Clandestine HappinessGiselle Beiguelman – Revista Select, 2021“This sense of possessing pleasure above all else is carnival’s inheritance and the secret of its power.” Samba ExaltaçãoAlexandre Sá – MAC Niterói, 2021Sooner or later in life, each of us comes to realize that complete happiness is unattainable. Agoniza Mas Não MorreAna Roman, 2021It is no accident that the first neon of Felippe Moraes’s Samba Exaltação project bears the words “Agoniza, Mas Não Morre.” Um Grito de Luz / A Cry of LightDaniel Rangel, 2021Words written in neon reverberate like a luminous cry, questioning the present moment. Uma Pausa de Mil CompassosAlexandre Sá, 2021The loneliness of a flickering, failing light in an empty shop window on a fast-moving night. Quero Viver no CarnavalThiago Fernandes – Revista Caju, 2021There could be no more fitting way for Samba Exaltação to end than on an Easter Sunday. 2020 Felippe Moraes, EledáMarc Pottier – Revista DasArtes, 2020Felippe Moraes is an optimistic shaman of a pre-apocalypse heralded by the coronavirus. 2019 Divino MaravilhosoJulia Lima – Solfejo, Centro Cultural FIESP, 2019The myth of Echo and Narcissus is an allegory for the relationship between image and sound. LUZIABernardo de Britto – Museu da Ciência, Universidade de Coimbra, 2019Luzia is the name given to the oldest human remains ever found in South America. 2018 O Peso do Intangível / The Weight of the IntangibleSylvia Werneck – Babel Art Magazine, 2018A retrospective on Felippe Moraes’s ten years of career, exploring his mathematical investigations of the human condition and the impossible search for the horizon. IMENSURÁVELAlexandre Sá – CAIXA Cultural Fortaleza, 2018A curatorial essay on the solo exhibition IMENSURÁVEL, exploring the artist’s rhizomatic, entropic approach to art, science, and the immeasurable. 2017 Felippe Moraes: All That Surpasses UsSusana Rocha – Revista :Estúdio, Artistas sobre outras Obras, 2017An essay tracing Felippe Moraes’s dialogue between science and spirituality across his body of work, from Verbo to Monumento ao Horizonte. CosmografiaJulia Lima – Baró Galeria, São Paulo, 2017On the exhibition Cosmografia and its exploration of mathematical patterns – the golden ratio, Kepler’s harmony of the spheres, and geometric symmetries – across video, photography, and drawing. 2016 ProgressãoMichelle Sommer – MAC Niterói, 2016On the solo exhibition Progressão, a gradation of flags along the museum’s ramp exploring color, territory, and political ambiguity. Monumento ao HorizonteJulia Lima – Caminho Niemeyer, Niterói, 2016On the public sculpture Monumento ao Horizonte, a steel structure on the Caminho Niemeyer pier that frames a fixed view of Guanabara Bay. 2015 Felippe MoraesAlexandre Sá – Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica, 2015A curatorial essay for the solo exhibition “Os Elementos,” on science as the semantic material of Felippe Moraes’s work. 2014 Verbo e O Peso do VerboIsabella Rjeille – FRESTAS Triennial, SESC Sorocaba, 2014On Verbo and O Peso do Verbo, and the alchemical, theological weight of subtracting “God” to find the “Word.” 2012 A dimensão humana do mundo / The Human Dimension of the WorldFernanda Lopes – Paço das Artes, 2012On the exhibition Construção and the importance of direct, unmediated contact with the world in Felippe Moraes’s early work. 1,04 centímetrosRaphael Fonseca – MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, 2012On the exhibition Matter, and the invisible discrepancies between numbers, measurement systems, and their false certainty. 2011 Questões sem resposta, 2011 / Questions Without Answer, 2011Fernanda Lopes – Paço das Artes, 2011On the exhibition Construção, the video series Encarnado, and the work π.Notes on the Human Dimension in ArtFernanda Lopes – Paço das Artes, 2011On Malevich’s Black Square, Lygia Clark, and the spiritual dimension of participation in art.