TERRA PROTEGIDA TERRA PROMETIDA

Société Interludio is pleased to present “Terra protegida, terra prometida”, a solo exhibition in Italy by Brazilian artist Ivan Grilo. Featuring a new body of work, the show is accompanied by a critical text by Jurandy Valença.
At the Earth’s core, currents of magma slowly shift the magnetic pole, reconfiguring the planet. “Terra protegida, terra prometida”, Ivan Grilo’s solo exhibition, emerges from this invisible force – a molten nucleus generating new orders – to reflect on the friction between future and present, between what is projected and what is preserved. Bronze castings erupt into the exhibition space as textual traces of this subterranean energy, while a video work unveils the metal-casting process, reminding us that every sculpture is also a geological movement.
On one side, the promised land: a horizon of exodus and faith, a space of the “not yet”, fragile because it depends on time and desire.
On the other, the protected land: already body, already territory, where protection, resistance, and containment offer refuge, ensuring nothing is lost. Written words become geological forms.
A politics of matter and a poetics of care are interwoven, turning promise into a present body, and protection into a gesture of perpetual transformation.
Terra protegida, terra prometida invites the viewer to dwell within this tension – where the dreamed future and the safeguarded present converge in the possibility of a world reconfigured from its very core.