2025
Substance and Foundation On The Work of Arorá, by Mariana Leme

In material terms, Arorá deposits in the plaster prepared canvas, layers of oily sticks made of pigment, bee’s wax, and carnaúba, to then cover them with other layers from the sticks and oil painting, successively, until the “substance” achieves a body, while at the same time turns invisible: chromatic plays, compositions, depictions are subsequently covered by the bulged layers. In other words, it is not about a disincarnated image, as painting is oftentimes perceived, but it constitutes itself as the accumulation of materials from diverse natures, slowly and meticulously deposited.

2023
The cave and the sun can be the same place, by Keyna Eleison

The one who thinks her work is fully revealed in everything we see is mistaken. It takes time, and even then, one cannot fully grasp all that goes into it. When Arorá says that “the cave and the sun can be the same place”, she invites us to transcend the apparent boundaries between the interior and exterior, between the dark and the bright. Her art takes us on a journey of discovery, where the cave shadows are transformed into rays of sunlight that brighten our relationship.

2023
In the backyard of me, by Keyna Eleison

By choosing a minimal particle we can begin to connect. The depth of her work, much like scientists who unravel the secrets of the universe on a microscopic scale, we, as spectators of her art, can venture ourselves into the subtle dimensions of her creations. Arorá not only digs the soil, she digs theories, theses, antitheses and certainties. An archaeologist of ideas, she brings from her world and hands us meaning today.