Opening: 11 December 2025, 6–10 PM 

Among the most significant voices of the current Brazilian art scene, Jonathas de Andrade has long explored the tensions between memory, identity and society, alternating performance, collaborations with local communities and installations that intertwine documentary approaches and fiction. 

At the centre of the exhibition is a new video created for Conciliazione 5, the contemporary art project promoted by the Dicastery for Culture and Education of the Vatican, curated by Cristiana Perrella and produced by Fondazione In Between Art Film, which inaugurates the new programme of MACRO’s video room. 

The work is a new production stemming from research conducted at the Lelio and Lisli Basso Foundation, focusing on a community of nuns who, in 1960s Brazil, wove together spirituality, political engagement and social pedagogy. Threatened by the military dictatorship, they left their vows and moved to Rome, continuing as laywomen their activities in support of the oppressed. 

Through their experience, the video connects the political and social movements of the period, the pedagogical thought of Paulo Freire, and the figure of Linda Bimbi—originally from Lucca, later emigrated to Brazil and then returned to Italy—who collaborated with Lelio Basso on the creation of the Russell Tribunal II on crimes committed in Latin America. 

With his characteristic attention to collective memory and forms of resistance, De Andrade interweaves archival materials and direct testimony, conveying the poetic and political strength of a community that—from Belo Horizonte to Rome—embodied a practice of spiritual freedom and social commitment.