Francisca Carvalho
Peplum

Solo Exhibition

Fundação Carmona e Costa
Saturday 22.02.2025

18h

Curated by Natxo Checa

PEPLUM

Once again, figuration. But not quite. Bulbs, humanoids, gloves, masculine figures, Sistine or androgynous, autumnal, almost futuristic, ephemeral.

The fall of an empire in a floral version. The baths are too hot. The steam softens the dry leaves. Gods, pinkish marble, and the memory of a volcano.

Peplum or peplo—a tunic that is already a way of tying and letting fall. Peplum or sandal cinema, post-epic-Mediterranean, swords & sandals. Peripheral exercises. We are born in a broth. Eia!

— Francisca Carvalho