The Adventure of Knowing - Exhibition: 'My Steps Traverse an Infinite' by Tales Oliveira

'My Steps Traverse an Infinite' is not just a metaphor; it is a cartography. The exhibition gathers fragments of a nomadic, unstable, and intuitive production, where the pictorial material carries the trace of a continuous displacement. The gesture is deposited on surfaces like dust from traveled paths. Tales constructs a wandering painting, born among cities, buses, fairs, streets, and chance. His pastel sticks not only draw but also testify: they are the silent companions of an aesthetic-existential journey. The absence of frames, the direct use of paper, and the relationship with everyday objects of creation reinforce both the precariousness and the power of a making that presses between the intimate and the public. The installation that integrates the exhibition expands this notion of transit: broken pencils, empty boxes, shirts stained with pigment. They are residues that gain voice, traces that narrate a body in motion - a body that paints, writes, and carries the workshop and the world. This exhibition is not about the destination but the journey. It is not about the finished work but the process. My steps traverse an infinite because it is not about arriving but insisting: in the walk, in the image, in the poetics. Artist biography: Tales Oliveira is a Brazilian artist born in Sergipe, trained and based in São Paulo. He studied Visual Arts at the Pan-American School of Art and Design in São Paulo and lithography at the free course of the Museum of Modern Art of Bahia. His trajectory includes numerous solo and group exhibitions, with awards and selections in important salons and biennials, such as the Cultural Foundation of the State of Bahia Award (2006), the 8th Biennial of Recôncavo (honorary mention), the Photography Award from the Secretary of Culture of the State of São Paulo (2008), and the Cultural Exchange and Dissemination Award from the Ministry of Culture of Brazil (2009). He was also awarded the Culture Awards of the City of São Paulo between 2010 and 2015. In 2023, he participated in the collective exhibition 'Dins du Tout' (Inside Everything) at the Maison des Réfugiés in Paris. He currently lives in transit through different cities in Europe, developing a pictorial production deeply linked to displacement, gesture, and life in motion.