Lenora de Barros (1953) is a visual artist and poet. A graduate in linguistics from USP, she began her artistic career in the 1970s in the field of visual poetry, in dialogue with concrete poetry. In 1983, she published the book Onde se vê and participated in the 17th São Paulo Biennial with visual poems in videotext format. Since then, she has developed an experimental poetics that moves between video, performance, photography, sound installation, and objects.

She participated in the 59th Venice Biennale (2022) and has exhibited in institutions such as Pinacoteca de São Paulo, MAM-SP, Kunstmuseum Bern, Hammer Museum, and Museo Reina Sofía. Her work is part of collections in Brazil and abroad.

Camila Sposati (1972) holds a master’s degree in fine arts from Goldsmiths College and is currently pursuing a PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her work investigates processes of transformation and energy, employing methods that are close to scientific research and examining processes on both microscopic and global scales. In her practice, Sposati juxtaposes material and historical processes to challenge official time and its meanings.

Sposati’s research has taken her to the Amazon, the Brazilian sertão, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, and Japan. She has exhibited in shows and venues such as Pivô Arte e Pesquisa (2019), Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo (2013, 2017), the 10th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre (2015), Eleven Rivington Gallery, New York (2013), Kunsthalle Wien (2021), and Panorama da Arte Brasileira (2022). She is represented by Galeria Lombardi – Kargl.

The work friend ship (2025) was created collaboratively by Lenora de Barros and Camila Sposati, based on the concept of the exhibition yours truly (working title), which proposes an affective and creative exchange between artist-friends. In this context, Lenora and Camila transformed the gesture of friendship into poetic material: an image constructed at the confluence of two distinct practices, yet intertwined through mutual listening. The digital collage, printed with inkjet on cotton paper, reveals the encounter between languages and sensibilities, where dialogue manifests itself as both form and content. Thus, friend ship not only reflects the relationship between the artists but also embodies the very idea of shared creation.