ERNESTO NETO
Camelocama (installation)
Flamboyant Shopping, Goiânia
Ernesto Neto's Camelocama, 2010, is now on view at the Flamboyant Shopping Centre in Goiânia. Evoking the canopy of a tree, the crochet installation takes inspiration from the makeshift architecture of street vendors in the artist's native Brazil and uses gravity as its central element, inviting visitors to lay under or walk through the structure's hanging appendages.
ERNESTO NETO
Le La Serpent (solo show)
Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche, Paris
11 January – 23 February 2025
For its tenth art exhibition in January, Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche invites Ernesto Neto to take over the premises. Le La Serpent features several monumental crochet works created in the artist’s studio in Rio de Janeiro. Stretching across the space, Neto’s installation delivers a joyful and spiritual interpretation of the founding myth of humanity in Western culture, through the key figures of Eve, Adam and the Serpent.
Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche
ERNESTO NETO
Slug Turtle, TemplEarth, 2022 (installation)
Commissioned by Qatar Museums, Qatar
Ernesto Neto’s immersive installation Slug Turtle, TemplEarth, 2022, has been unveiled in the desert of Qatar’s northernmost region, near the Al Zubarah and Ain Mohammed heritage sites. Composed of 8 football goal frames arranged in an octagonal ring and surrounded by white crocheted netting, the site-specific installation invites viewers to communicate with the spirit of the desert. ‘The work creates a space to meditate about our present, past and future in a social-ecological network shared by humans, birds, bugs, plants and all forms of life,’ the artist explains.
The work joins more than 100 public artworks commissioned by Qatar Museums in time for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.