VOGUE BRAZIL ART

With Língua de Fogo, Paula Scávazzini Makes Her Rio Debut

By: Thyago Furtado

June 2, 2026

From the article, by Thyago Furtado:

With "Língua de Fogo" (Tongue of Fire), Paula Scávazzini debuts in Rio with her first solo exhibition.
On display at the Correios Cultural Center until July 4th, the exhibition brings together 25 works; in an interview with Vogue Brazil, the artist talks about her creative process, architecture, and her residencies in Lisbon, Paris, and New York.

Paula Scávazzini paints on the canvas on the floor, imprinting the record of her own movements in a practice she describes as "a pictorial psychography." The São Paulo-born artist, born in São José dos Campos in 1990, has a background in architecture, fine arts, and art education. Her works are in collections such as the Brazilian Art Museum and the Inimá de Paula Museum, and she recently exhibited at the Kaliner Gallery in New York , where she participated in the two person exhibition “Between Utopias and the Abyss”.

Now she arrives in Rio de Janeiro with “Língua de Fogo” (Tongue of Fire) , her first solo exhibition in the city, at the Correios Cultural Center.
The exhibition brings together approximately 25 works, including paintings, works on glass, and two site-specific interventions created especially for the space. One of the highlights is “Montanha que Escorre” (Running Mountain ), a ten-meter installation that descends from the wall to the floor.

For Scàvazzini, painting in a space is also painting the space. "The wall, the floor, and the architecture don't just function as a support, but as an active part of the construction of the work." And if one day all her exhibitions could be seen from afar, in perspective, she believes that "they might compose a single, large, expanding painting." Vogue spoke with the artist about the relationship between painting and architecture, her creative process, and the residences that shaped her work.