Transe is a curated section presented at SP–Arte Rotas 2025 that investigates the liminal territory between figuration and abstraction. The exhibition brings together five artists—Caio Carpinelli (São Paulo / BR), Emilia Estrada (Córdoba / AR), Fernão Cruz (Lisbon / PT), Marina Woisky (São Paulo / BR), and Marlan Cotrim (Recife / BR)—whose practices explore a visual field in constant transition, where forms never fully settle. The project stems from the idea of non-figuration, a double negation that rejects both literal representation and pure abstraction. Instead, it proposes an immersion into works that function as passages, fields of energy where gesture, body, memory, and matter intertwine in an undisciplined manner, challenging rigid categories.

The new works presented materialize this investigation in distinct and complementary ways. The pieces move through zones of ambiguity, from Caio Carpinelli’s painting, which creates tension between the visible and the invisible, to Emilia Estrada’s lunar maps that blend cartography and fabulation, and Fernão Cruz’s sculptures that evoke physical and psychic displacement. The selection is completed by Marina Woisky’s metamorphic bodies, suspended between myth and matter, and Marlan Cotrim’s “corpografias em trânsito” (corpographies in transit), which dissolve the boundaries between body, landscape, and painting. Together, the artists create a poetic ecosystem that operates like a whisper between what is said and what escapes.

More than an exhibition about a style or trend, Transe asserts itself as a state of attention and a crossing. In tune with the spirit of SP–Arte Rotas, the project reverberates with the urgency to displace, transpose, and reinvent. By bringing together practices that challenge binarisms and celebrate fluidity, the exhibition offers a visual and political experience that invites the public to abandon the certainties of the gaze and surrender to images that are always in transit, proposing new ways of feeling and imagining.