In Onde cabe o olho, Nicolás Robbio exercises an intimate manipulation and spatial occupation in Vermelho’s main building. This mastery of the space is the result of his 20 years of representation by the gallery, with 8 solo exhibitions (this is his 9th) at the gallery and more than 20 participations in group exhibitions.

Robbio subverts the circulation of the three exhibition rooms he occupies, establishing an immersive experience through new paths and ways of contemplating the works. In Onde cabe o olho, the body must offer the eye enough maneuvers to circulate in the gallery. As curator Clarisa Appendino writes in her exhibition text: “Bottle caps, rubber bands, fancy pearls, confetti, pins, washers, benches, matches… where do these elements come from that, like coins on the floor, we pick up with our eyes during our path through the exhibit? While this is a valid question, the answer is obvious. So, what interests us is not only the origin of these objects, but their trajectory and the displacement that destined these small elements to be suspended from their daily craft and noticed within an accidental stain of varnish.”

For Robbio, the exhibition space is never neutral, it is, therefore, a terrain of affections and conventions determined by what the individual gaze by each visitor allows to assimilate. It is through this poetic approach that the artist seeks to encourage the observer to imagine and transcend limits, both material and subjective.