Siwaju – To the storms, returning tides
April 11 - May 30, 2026
Siwaju
To the storms, returning tides
April 11 - May 30, 2026

The exhibition To the storms, returning tides, by Siwaju, occupies the Project Room and the library at auroras. The show brings together a group of sculptural works that investigate matter as a field of activation, where force and structure are intertwined.

Grounded in a practice based on the reuse of materials, the artist performs cuts, incisions, folds, twists, and welds, creating compositions that engage with Afrodiasporic cosmological dimensions—ways of understanding the formation of world, space, and time.

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Photos: Ding Musa
Works
Cobra-mundo, 2025-2026
dotted brass, pivoting steel plates, flat steel bar, welding and oxidation process
22 x 22 x 12 1/4 inches sphere
height with varying dimensions
Sipaki, 2024
metal, steel bar, brass bar, and oxidation process
25 5/8 x 31 1/2 x 35 3/8 inches
X, 2023
metalon and oxidation process 39 3/8 x 28 3/8 x 4 3/8 inches
Fenda-Gìgé (corte), 2026
corten steel plate and oxidation process 65 x 9 x 1 1/8 inches
Entre eles, 2024
steel angles and oxidation process 69 1/4 x 5 7/8 x 3 1/2 inches
Entre nós, 2024
steel angles and oxidation process 58 1/4 x 15 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches
Black frequencies, 2023
metal engraving without inking on 300 gsm Hahnemühle paper
13 x 10 x 1 5/8 in framed
unique print
About the artist

Siwaju (1997, São Paulo) lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. She holds a degree in Visual Arts from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (2025), and participated in the Formação e Deformação Program at EAV Parque Lage (2022) and the Escola Livre de Artes at Galpão Bela Maré (ELÃ, 2022). Her sculptural practice investigates the relationship between time and different ecologies, using reclaimed steel elements—donated, collected, and recycled—to establish a direct connection with Brazilian three-dimensional thinking. Her works articulate interactions between matter and the cosmos, visible and invisible energies, object and environment, sculptural body and space, always operating within a spiraled temporality, in constant expansion and return, activating Afro-diasporic knowledge.