A space simultaneously out of time and anchored in the present – that is the condition of the Eva Klabin Foundation (Rio de Janeiro), a house-museum kept in the exact same conditions as of when its owner was still alive, during the Projeto Respiração (Breath Project). Curated by Marcio Doctors, the 2004-born project organizes contemporary art site-specific interventions at the Foundation. Each guest artist has total creative freedom, provided that the collection is kept intact and entirely on display.

As the single invited for the 21^st edition, Regina Silveira (Porto Alegre, 1939) occupies the house with the intervention INSOLITUS. For the show, certain elements from her visual lexicon – such as giant bugs –, as well as new works that were exclusively made for the exhibition, are re-arranged in a strange environment, between dream and nightmare, created through surrealistic changes in domestic objects (like a hairy dinner table), or through the presence of displaced situations, such as an alligator swamp from where emerges a 1,80 m tall black egg. The calmness and stability of the private environment represented by the residence are thus subverted by the artist that fills, with strange beings and unexpected metamorphoses, a house that has as single presence its owner who is long gone.

The exhibition can be visited from September 27th until January 9th 2017.