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It is with great pleasure that the Vale Cultural Institute, through the Vale Maranhão Cultural Center (CCVM), presents, in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art - MAC/Niterói, the exhibition Floating Cities, as part of the France-Brazil Cross Season.
In 2024, the CCVM hosted French artists Cécile Palusinski and Elsa Mroziewicz, who traveled to the Legal Amazon to develop, in collaboration with local artists and traditional communities, the new panel dedicated to São Luís do Maranhão.

The project, which uses augmented reality to represent cities and their multiple cultural identities, takes on a new dimension by integrating São Luís into its ensemble. The result of sensitive exchanges and experiences in the field, the panel reveals the symbolic, auditory, and visual layers of the capital of Maranhão and celebrates the encounter between traditional knowledge, local narratives, and contemporary language, emphasizing sustainable forms of preserving memory, cultural diversity, and relationships with the environment.
This initiative reaffirms the Vale Cultural Institute's commitment to strengthening cultural networks between Brazil and the world, with a particular focus on the voices of the Amazon. By promoting encounters between artists of different origins and stimulating collaborative creation, the project highlights the role of art as a tool for dialogue, listening, sustainability, and building a common future.

It is with great enthusiasm that MAC Niterói welcomes the exhibition Cidades Flutuantes (Floating Cities), as part of the France-Brazil Season 2025.

The launch of this exhibition in Brazil reaffirms the museum's vocation as a space for cultural exchange, open to the dialogue made possible by transdisciplinarity and attentive to the challenges of our time. Artists Elsa and Cécile present works that reveal sensitive and fertile encounters between cultures, knowledge, and territories, offering new perspectives for reflecting on art, technology, and the environment. Their work reinforces the relevance of contemporary art as a field that brings countries together through creativity and shared reflection. We thus celebrate not only the power of this collaboration, but above all the symbolic gesture of building bridges between cultures and affirming art as a common language, as a meeting place between science, memory, and the future.