Construction, Occupation: Brazilian Art, Activism, and Housing Justice / Fowler Museum at UCLA

Construction, Occupation

Art, Activism, and Housing Justice

Fowler Musuem at UCLA

May 4, 2025 - January 11, 2026

Construction, Occupation presents the work of 24 artists and collectives that engage art’s potential to shape the city through the power of community. Drawing on myriad visual languages and poetics grounded in collective action, the exhibition investigates a radical urban vocabulary that blurs art and activism to address questions of infrastructure and vulnerability, circulation and segregation, and the body in public space.

Participating Artists:

André Komatsu

Bijari

Cinthia Marcelle

Cozinha Ocupação 9 de Julho

Dulcinéia Catadora

Edgar Calel

Edouard Fraipont

Eliane Caffé

Explode! Platform

Frente 3 de Fevereiro

Grupo Contrafilé

Ícaro Lira, Isadora Brant, and Fernanda Taddei

Jaime Lauriano

Jardim Miriam Arte Clube

João Simões

Julián Fuks

Legítima Defesa

Noara Quintana

Peabiru – Estúdio de Arquitetura

Preta Ferreira

Raphael Escobar

Rosa Gauditano

Sato do Brasil

Virginia de Medeiros

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