Tracing a Dialogue between Myra Landau and Gego
Born into Jewish families in Europe, both artists were forced to rebuild their lives in Latin America amidst the upheavals of the twentieth century. Gertrud Goldschmidt (Gego) escaped Nazi persecution in 1939, settling in Venezuela, where she would go on to shape one of the most influential bodies of work in postwar Latin American art. Myra Landau, born in Bucharest, fled Romania with her family in 1940, first finding refuge in Brazil before later developing a significant part of her practice in Mexico.
Rather than serving simply as biographical parallels, their trajectories illuminate a shared commitment to reinvention—an artistic process grounded in assembling meaning and forging new visual languages from fragments and remains.
Together, Gego and Landau reveal line as something lived: a method of survival as much as a method of art. In their hands, the grid does not stabilize the world—it bursts and unravels, unfolds and dismembers, making room for new relations between shape and ground, craft and concept, discipline and play.
The exhibition, presented by Henrique Faria, is accompanied by a text by art historian and Gego specialist Mónica Amor, who introduces the notion of trama—a term that bridges narrative and textile thinking, evoking both the structuring of a story and the interweaving of material, where density, variation, and texture emerge through the act of construction itself.
Read the full text “Trama: Tactile, Material, and Provisional” by Monica Amor here.
Event details
Date: February 26, 2026 until May 9, 2026
Location: Henrique Faria Fine Art, 35 East 67th St. 4th Floor, New York, NY 10065, US
