For its new exhibition to coincide with Art Basel this week, Dover Street Market Paris presents Alvorada, a dialogue between five Brazilian artists exploring memory, resilience, and the transformations of everyday life. Curated by Sophie de Mello Franco, the project brings together painting, photography, and installation to examine that fragile moment when night yields to light.

On the staircase, Antonio Társis transforms an everyday object, the matchbox, into a constellation of memory. Luísa Matsushita, founding member of the feminist rock band Cansei de Ser Sexy, presents suspended canvases that capture the tension between opposing forces, evoking the gentle motion of childhood swings.

At Rose Bakery, the Retratistas do Morro, Afonso Pimenta and João Mendes, unveil an intimate chronicle of daily life in Aglomerado da Serra, one of Brazil’s largest favelas. Their photographs from the 1970s and 1980s immortalise moments of resilience, dignity, and collective memory.

Finally, in the basement, the floating works of Ana Cláudia Almeida invoke the body in transformation, poised between awakening and disappearance.

Alvorada, curated by Sophie de Mello Franco, is on view from October 20 to November 13, 2025, at Dover Street Market, 35–37 rue des Franc-Bourgeois, Paris 4th. Free admission.