Anderson Borba (1972) is a visual artist who lives and works between São Paulo and London. His practice is structured around the dialogue between industrial materials and artisanal gestures, exploring the tension between body, matter, and image.

In his work, industrialized wood, along with cardboard, fabrics, and printed matter, is transformed through carving, burning, painting, and pressing. From this confrontation emerge surfaces full of marks and retro-morphic sculptures that evoke fragmented bodies, ruins, or artifacts in constant transformation.

His work moves between the canon of sculpture and Brazilian autodidact traditions, balancing conceptual reflection and sensory experience. Within this hybrid field, the raw and the delicate intertwine, giving rise to forms that hover between recognition and estrangement.

Among his exhibitions, highlights include I’ve Seen One of These, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo (2022); Auroras in collaboration with Dude Maia Rosa; and Pivô alongside Erika Verzutti, both in São Paulo. In 2024, he presented Thinking Hands with Gokula Stoffel (François Ghebaly, New York), and in 2025 held Secret Ceremony at The Approach, London—his first solo exhibition at the gallery.

Névoa Berry (2024) is a wall sculpture created from mixed media, using a compilation of references collected from magazines, supermarket flyers, and photographs taken by Borba in street markets in Salvador and London. For this piece, the artist worked and sculpted the wood, creating tension by transforming it into something almost unrecognizable, nonspecific, and slow to be decoded—even though it is a material he knows intimately, understanding its limits, strength, and possibilities. The title, Névoa Berry, draws on musical references such as Purple Rain and Raspberry Beret by Prince, while the purple hue present in the work connects the sacred and the sensual through the fusion of blue, associated with the divine, and red, linked to the carnal.