Pedro Zylbersztajn – Rehearsal for Return
February 7 – March 28, 2026
Pedro Zylbersztajn
Rehearsal for Return
February 7 – March 28, 2026

A set of images, apparitions, gestures, and referential structures is seen successively across three screens positioned at different points in space. Centered on a video installation conceived from an invitation to occupy the auroras library, the work explores the strange relations between archives and time, turning past, present, and future into a single substance.

The uninterrupted repetition created by the artist through a panoramic traveling shot constructs a situation in which space is contiguous, while linear time is disjointed.

The loop functions as a narrative drive. By associating it with the traumatic image, which repeats itself intrusively, and with ghosts, which continually return to haunt the same place, the work uses this circular structure to hypnotically interweave the relations between memory, history, and information infrastructures.

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Photographs: Ding Musa
Works
Photographs: Ding Musa
rehearsal for return, 2026
video installation, 16mm film transferred to digital, three channels, stereo sound, text printed on rice paper | dimensions variable in time and space
edition of 3 x 2 A.P.
ix-xiii, 2026
Letraset and gouache on diffusion film
43 ⅛ x 24 5/8 inches
A.-K., 2026
Letraset and gouache on diffusion film
28 ⅛ x 16 5/8 inches
1-5, 2025
Letraset and gouache on diffusion film
28 ⅛ x 16 5/8 inches
recurring notes for a return #1], 2026
Screenprint
three parts of 4 x 19 ⅝ inches
edition of 12 + 1 A.P.
recurring notes for a return #2], 2026
Screenprint
three parts of 4 x 19 ⅝ inches
edition of 12 + 1 A.P.
recurring notes for a return #3], 2026
Screenprint
three parts of 4 x 19 ⅝ inches
edition of 12 + 1 A.P.
About the artist

Pedro Zylbersztajn
São Paulo Brazil, 1993 – Lives and works in São Paulo, Brasil

Pedro Zylbersztajn (São Paulo, 1993) is an artist and researcher who makes drawings, texts, performances, sounds, installations and videos which aim to reconsider and redesign the protocols of everyday life. Among his activities are exhibitions in institutions such as auroras (São Paulo), Pivô (São Paulo), Americas Society (New York), Palais des Beaux-arts de Paris, la_cápsula (Zürich), MAH Genève, Galerie Art&Essaie (Rennes), Galeria RGR (Mexico City) and CAN (Neuchâtel), as well as inclusions in the 2nd FRONT International Triennial (Cleveland, 2022) and the 12th São Paulo International Architecture Biennial (2019). He was a resident at Pivô (São Paulo, 2020), Villa Sträuli (Winterthur, Switzerland, 2023), moraes-barbosa collection (São Paulo, 2024) and Fundación Mar Adentro/Institute for Postnatural Studies (La Araucanía, Chile, 2025). In 2023 he was commissioned to develop a permanent installation at Pivôʼs library, and in 2024, he was one of 20 artists included in Art in Americaʼs New Talents issue. He was a postgraduate fellow at Art by Translation (France, 2019-2021), and holds a masterʼs degree in Art, Culture and Technology from MIT (USA, 2018).