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Revenguê IV (2021) is part of a series titled Cartazes para Revenguê, in which Cruz develops graphic experiments around the encounter between the fictional planets Revenguê and Plenér, part of the space opera presented at the Museu de Arte do Rio (2023) and Pinacoteca de São Paulo (2025).
Drawing from this cosmology, the work explores spatial displacement as a metaphor for human displacement and transformation. Outer space becomes a field of projection through which to reflect on exchanges, desires, and forms of existence.
The composition, made with acrylic paint, charcoal, and pastel, is structured primarily through the dialogue between red and purple against a black field. These colors evoke a symbolic passage between libido, associated with red, and the mind, represented by purple, suggesting a continuous movement between impulse, thought, and imagination.
Yhuri Cruz (1991) is a visual artist, writer, and playwright based in Rio de Janeiro. He develops his artistic and literary practice through scenic and installation-based propositions that engage with historical archives, fictions, and fabulations of the Black diaspora in Brazil and around the world.
Working across sculpture, drawing, and film, Cruz is particularly dedicated to the long-running series of performances he calls Cenas Pretofágicas (The Emancipation plays). His most recent solo exhibition was O Jantar: Uma exposição-cena, at Galleria Continua, and he has recently exhibited work at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, and the Havana Biennial in Cuba.