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About the exhibition
Hudinilson Jr. & Charbel-joseph H. Boutros
Hudinilson Jr. and Charbel joseph H. Boutros
Start 04 Sep 2025

This exhibition brings together the work of Hudinilson Jr. and Charbel-joseph H. Boutros, two artists whose practices, though developed in different contexts and generations, resonate in their exploration of visibility, intimacy, and the limits of perception. Hudinilson Jr. (1957–2013) was a key figure in the Brazilian avant-garde, known for his pioneering use of the photocopy machine as both medium and method. Beginning in the late 1970s, he used xerox as a way to fragment, enlarge, and abstract his own body, creating works that move between image and texture, figuration and disappearance. His ongoing exercise of literal self-expression reflects a deeply personal and experimental approach to self-representation and the visual language of desire, reproduction, and loss. Charbel-joseph H. Boutros (1981) works with absence as a material condition. In his sculptures, texts, and spatial interventions, visibility is charged with personal, geographical, and historical weight. Often subtle and minimal, his gestures open spaces where silence, darkness, and time take on form. Boutros uses the exhibition space as a site where reality is quietly reframed. Presented together, the works of Hudinilson Jr. and Charbel-joseph H. Boutros reveal parallel strategies of withdrawal, repetition, and transformation. While one confronts the surface of the body, and the other touches on the immaterial, both challenge what it means to be seen and what remains when the image fades.

Talk about the work of Hudinilson Jr.
07 Sep 2025
04:00 pm

Talk about the work of Hudinilson Jr and queer practices moderated by curator Bas Hendrikx, followed by drinks

About the venue
Martins&Montero

Midtown - Gallery
Rue aux Laines 14, 1000 Bruxelles
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Martins&Montero is a contemporary art gallery created in 2024 from the merger of two established galleries, Sé and Jaqueline Martins. With spaces in São Paulo and Brussels, the gallery proposes collaborative curatorial strategies that foster exchanges between different generations and different cultural perspectives. Through a program made up of national and international artists at different points in their careers, interdisciplinary productions with diverse approaches co-exist and dialogue in a profound way.

In São Paulo, Martins&Montero is based in a large house built in the 1950s, whose mission is to host exhibitions, meetings and promote art in a human way, bringing the public closer to the artists’ production.

In Brussels, with a house located in the central part of the city, the gallery aims to expand its presence in Europe and develop a multidisciplinary program that promotes connections between its artists and Brazilian art practices in an international context.