Aura is pleased to present Não se toca sem algum risco o íntimo das coisas (One cannot touch the intimacy of things without some risk), the first solo exhibition by artist Marina Schroeder at the gallery, opening on February 7. Curated by Galciani Neves, the exhibition brings together recent and unpublished works that focus on the gaps in the artist's family history and the marks left by post-war Germany.

The title, borrowed from Cristina Rioto's book of poems Guardar o corpo com palavras (2025), refers to Schroeder's creative process, which involves emotional vulnerability and sensitive intimacy with organic materials. "Coexisting with these sensations narrated by relatives, with unofficial stories and with the remnants of a Germany devastated by World War II, Marina Schroeder found herself faced with a kind of inheritance: threads of a narrative yet to be told, which now rest, now stir and leave many unknowns in the air," writes the curator.

The highlight of the exhibition is the artist's chemical experimentation process. Marina managed to extract a unique color palette from white rose petals. While in her studio she takes the materiality of flowers to the limit, reducing them to residues and chromatic extracts, in her investigation of her ancestry the path is the opposite: her family history is viewed through the traces and silences that remain. "From the traces, I extract the history that interests me. Nothing is invented: everything is taken from what already exists," explains Schroeder.