On June 28, Almeida & Dale will open Vaquejada da Meia-Noite [Midnight Steer Roping], a group exhibition curated by David Almeida. Taking place in the new exhibition space at Fradique 1360, the show brings together distinct voices and generations of artists connected to the territory of Ceará through an affective gesture that echoes and expands Almeida’s trajectory and research.

Driven by a personal family investigation, David Almeida—born in Guará, Federal District—developed a deep connection with the sertão [Brazilian hinterland] and its artists, finding resonances of his inquiries in the images they create.

Rather than explaining or cataloguing local production, “the exhibition gives voice to haunted testimonies of resistance, which intertwine and challenge the real and imagined Brazil, where prayer and belief are inseparable from truth.”

The night, belief, and the devil—as well as struggle, labor, and survival tools—are images that shape the gothic-sertanejo atmosphere proposed by the exhibition.