Cabacacabeca, by Pedro França, Jaiane Damasceno, Daiane Damasceno, Deusvaldo Pereira, and Erika Inforsato

Casa de Cultura do Parque presents, starting November 14, 2026, the project “CABAÇACABEÇA”, by Pedro França, Jaiane Damasceno, Daiane Damasceno, Deusvaldo Pereira, and Erika Inforsato, as part of the institution’s third exhibition cycle. The first initiative of the Chão Comum program, the collaborative mural was conceived and created by artist Pedro França, the PACTO-USP research group (Production of Subjectivity, Art, Body and Occupational Therapy), and independent cultural space Casa Dinegro, in partnership with Barraco Escola, part of Instituto Acaia, and Instituto Rogacionista CCA Madre Nazarena.
To create the approximately seven-meter-long mural, composed of ceramic modules, four workshops were held – three at Casa Dinegro and one at Casa de Cultura do Parque – bringing together participants connected to different institutions within the Ceasa favela complex, in Vila Leopoldina. The workshops took as their starting point Édouard Glissant’s notion of the archipelago, in which the world is not organized around centralization or homogeneity, but rather as a set of diverse parts that relate to one another through exchanges, encounters, and friction. During the workshops, participants explored clay through its materiality, limitations, and possibilities, giving rise to representations of animals, food, technologies, and celestial bodies. After firing, the mural was divided into two parts: one installed at Casa Dinegro and the other in the Jardim das Paineiras at Casa de Cultura do Parque.
The Chão Comum program seeks to ground artistic practice in contemporary issues involving art, education, culture, and society. Artists are invited to develop creative processes through pedagogical practices. “The project establishes dialogical relationships between different territories and agents within the art circuit through activities and exchanges of knowledge. Beyond the boundaries of Casa de Cultura do Parque, these spaces bring us closer to a vibrant artistic production committed to the city and society, contributing to the creation of new ways of existing within the diversity of contemporary production,” says Claudio Cretti, the institution’s artistic director.
Erika Inforsato, one of the project’s creators, recalls that the figures emerging in the workshops held at Casa Dinegro and Casa de Cultura do Parque increasingly called for a mural capable of encompassing many worlds. “There were fish, soccer jerseys, tigers, mermaids, gourds, grotesque faces, walls with cats and birds, trophies and tributes […] And then came the hands of the artists, who brought the river, the gourd, and the livusia to haunt and enchant that finite infinity, shaped in just a few hours to become ceramics and friendship,” she adds.
In addition to the opening on November 14, Casa de Cultura do Parque will host a meeting with the artists behind “CABAÇACABEÇA” on November 29 at 11 am, for a conversation about the mural’s creative process and the collaborative workshops. On the same Sunday, at 2 pm, following the conversation, the public is invited to the opening of the other part of the work, which will be presented at Casa Dinegro, in Vila Leopoldina.