Sara Ramo: a fúria dos restos vivos is presented at Pina Estação in São Paulo from 7 November 2026 to 18 April 2027.

The exhibition offers the first broad panoramic view at Pinacoteca of the work of Spanish-Brazilian artist Sara Ramo.

Ramo is known for transforming discarded objects, fragments, ordinary materials, and everyday environments into images and installations filled with strangeness, humour, and fantasy.

Her artistic practice moves across installation, sculpture, video, photography, collage, and other media.

Instead of treating common objects as neutral things, she rearranges them until their familiar meanings begin to shift.

Domestic materials can become theatrical.

Waste can become poetic.

Ordinary spaces can feel unsettling or magical.

Curated by Lorraine Mendes, the exhibition occupies the fourth floor of Pina Estação and provides a substantial overview of Ramo’s practice.

For ArtExpoWorld readers, this is one of the strongest museum exhibitions running in São Paulo during the first months of 2027.

A Fúria dos Restos Vivos presents Sara Ramo’s work through a broad survey rather than a single recent series.

The exhibition examines how the artist has repeatedly collected objects, residues, materials, and stories and reorganized them into new visual systems.

Ramo’s work often begins with things that appear insignificant.

Fragments, domestic objects, discarded materials, and traces of previous use can become the foundation for installations and images.

This process changes the status of the object.

Something that might normally be ignored suddenly becomes central.

The familiar becomes unfamiliar.

The exhibition also explores the relationship between reality and fiction.

Ramo does not build fantasy worlds by escaping everyday life.

She constructs them from the material evidence of everyday life itself.

The result can be humorous, disturbing, or dreamlike.

Because the exhibition is panoramic, visitors can observe how these strategies have developed across different periods of the artist’s career.

Sara Ramo: The Fury of the Living Remains 2026/2027 Event Overview

Sara Ramo: The Fury of the Living Remains 2026/2027 – Contemporary Art at Pinacoteca São Paulo

Sara Ramo’s practice moves across video, installation, photography, sculpture and collage, but many of her works begin with the same simple action: collecting things that other people might overlook. That act of collecting becomes a way of rebuilding reality.

Dates:

7 November 2026 - 18 April 2027

Location:

Pina Estação, Pinacoteca of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Mission:

The mission of A Fúria dos Restos Vivos is to reconsider the value of things that society overlooks, abandons, or discards. Sara Ramo’s work asks what happens when ordinary materials are removed from their usual functions. A discarded object can still carry memory. A fragment can still contain evidence of the person who handled it. A domestic space can reveal structures of labour, gender, and social behaviour. The exhibition also challenges the assumption that artistic value depends on precious material. Ramo frequently works with modest or everyday substances. Their transformation is conceptual rather than luxurious. The project encourages visitors to notice how the world is continuously organised through systems of use, ownership, and disposal. By rearranging those systems, the artist creates other possibilities. The exhibition is therefore not only about objects. It is about how people assign value to the material world.

Organizer:

Sara Ramo: the fury of living remains is organised by Pinacoteca de São Paulo. The exhibition is curated by Lorraine Mendes. Pinacoteca is one of Brazil’s oldest and most important public art institutions. Its programme operates across three nearby buildings: Pina Luz, Pina Estação and Pina Contemporânea. The institution presents historical and contemporary Brazilian art while developing exhibitions that connect its collections with current artistic practice. The Sara Ramo survey forms part of this wider programme and provides the artist with a major institutional platform in São Paulo.

Why attend to Sara Ramo: The Fury of the Living Remains 2026/2027?

The exhibition is worth visiting because it allows audiences to see a substantial body of work rather than a single isolated installation.

For contemporary art audiences, the survey reveals how an artistic language can develop through repeated attention to ordinary materials.

For installation artists, Ramo’s use of objects and space provides valuable insight into how a gallery can become part of the artwork.

For designers and architects, the exhibition raises questions about how objects influence the emotional character of an environment.

For students, it demonstrates that artistic practice can begin with observation rather than expensive production.

For collectors and curators, the survey offers a broader context for an artist whose work has been presented internationally.

For cultural travellers, Pina Estação also provides an opportunity to explore one of São Paulo’s most important museum complexes.

Ticket Information

General admission costs

General admission to Pinacoteca is currently R$40.

Reduced admission is R$20 for eligible visitors.

One ticket is valid for Pina Luz, Pina Estação, and Pina Contemporânea on the same day.

Admission is free for everyone on Saturdays.

The second Sunday of every month is also free.

Children aged 10 and under and visitors aged 60 and over qualify for free admission under the current policy.

The museum operates Wednesday to Monday from 10:00 to 18:00, with last entry at 17:00.

Ticket prices may change before 2027, so visitors should confirm the final policy shortly before traveling.

Getting There:

Pina Estação is located at Largo General Osório 66 in the Santa Ifigênia district of São Paulo.

The museum is close to Luz Station, one of the city’s major metro and suburban railway hubs.

Visitors can reach Pina Estação through the cultural complex connected with the Luz area.

The three Pinacoteca buildings are close enough to be visited on foot during the same day.

Taxi and rideshare services are also widely available.

São Paulo–Guarulhos International Airport is the principal international gateway.

Congonhas Airport handles many domestic services.

Traffic can be extremely heavy, so metro travel is often the most predictable option within central São Paulo.

Accommodation

Central São Paulo provides practical access to the Pinacoteca complex and other cultural institutions.

Higienópolis offers hotels, restaurants and a quieter residential environment.

Jardins is one of the best choices for visitors planning a wider art itinerary involving MASP and commercial galleries.

Pinheiros provides contemporary galleries, restaurants and nightlife.

Bela Vista is convenient for Avenida Paulista and central transport connections.

Visitors should prioritise proximity to metro stations when choosing accommodation.

São Paulo is enormous, and a hotel that looks close on a map can still require substantial travel time.

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History & Context of a Sara Ramo: The Fury of the Living Remains 2026/2027

Sara Ramo was born in Madrid and has developed her life and career between Spain and Brazil.

This experience of belonging to more than one cultural context has influenced her interest in unfamiliarity and displacement.

She has described everyday reality through practices that transform familiar environments into something unstable.

Her work belongs to a broader history of contemporary artists who use found objects and ordinary materials rather than relying exclusively on traditional painting or sculpture.

However, Ramo’s approach has its own atmosphere.

Objects are not presented simply as evidence of consumer society.

They frequently enter strange, theatrical or fictional relationships.

Her work can contain humour while also suggesting violence, vulnerability or unease.

Brazilian contemporary art provides an important context for these strategies.

Artists have long explored ordinary materials, participation, architecture and the unstable boundary between object and environment.

Ramo extends that conversation through an especially personal relationship with collection, residue and fantasy.

Tips for Visitors of Sara Ramo: The Fury of the Living Remains 2026/2027

Allow at least 90 minutes for the exhibition.

Do not focus solely on identifying what individual objects originally were.

Pay attention to how their relationships change once Ramo reorganizes them.

Walk around installations where permitted.

Different viewpoints may reveal details invisible from the entrance.

Read the material descriptions carefully.

The physical history of an object may be part of its meaning.

Combine the exhibition with Pina Luz and Pina Contemporânea.

One Pinacoteca ticket provides access to all three buildings on the same day.

Saturday is free for all visitors.

The second Sunday of each month is also free.

Tips from the ArtExpoWorld

Do not look for beauty only in finished or valuable objects.

Ramo is interested in what remains after usefulness disappears.

The exhibition becomes more interesting when you stop asking what an object is and start asking what history it has already lived through.

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Editor’s Note

Sara Ramo: A Fúria dos Restos Vivos matters because contemporary culture produces enormous quantities of objects and then teaches us to stop noticing them.

For ArtExpoWorld, Ramo’s strength lies in reversing that process.

She takes leftovers, fragments, and ordinary things and gives them enough attention to become strange again.

The exhibition does not romanticize waste.

It reveals how much memory, labor, and imagination can remain inside material that has supposedly lost its value.

That makes this survey particularly relevant now, when the question of what societies keep and what they throw away has become impossible to ignore.

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