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ISSUE 62  ·  AUG 20 2026  ·  ART · BRAZILIAN PAINTING

Paulo Nimer Pjota — Encantados

Paulo Nimer Pjota — Encantados
The mural comes down on Sunday. Pjota painted it directly onto the walls of the South London Gallery's Main Gallery, and when Encantados closes on August 23 it gets covered over: five months up, free, no booking, gone. He describes the method as sampling and means it literally. He was a graffiti writer in São José do Rio Preto before he was a painter, and he builds canvases the way a producer builds a beat — loop a piece of art history, drop something new over it. A speaker stack with reggae written across it. A three-headed animal working a trumpet, a horn and a drum at once. The gallery screened Wild Style in July alongside the show, which is how you know they read it right. Peckham, until Sunday.
8.0SCORE CROWN FIND HEAT 38

FIND — the score is ahead of the room.

BENCHMARK IN THE 50 · a CROWN next to Lauren Halsey — monumental work built out of vernacular signage and street iconography, São Paulo instead of South Central
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