The Oscar Niemeyer Museum (MON) inaugurates a new exhibition space, Room 12, on August 6 with The back of the page contains the other side (O verso da página contém o outro lado) by Brazilian artist Juliana Stein. Located next to the tunnel entrance on the museum’s lower level, the new gallery opens as a space for diverse narratives, artistic languages, and cultural experiences.

Based on Stein’s artist’s book of the same name, the exhibition offers visitors an experience that combines reading with lived moments. Teachers, students, people aged 60 and over, and the general public are invited to reflect on the idea of life as a book and on the notion that, in order to move forward, one must always return to reading. Rather than presenting reading as a purely individual act, the exhibition explores it as a way of experiencing, interpreting, and revisiting life.

More than simply an exhibition space, Room 12 marks the beginning of a new setting within MON dedicated to encounters between different forms of artistic expression and personal experience. Through Stein’s work, the inaugural exhibition brings together the act of reading, memory, and lived experience, inviting visitors to approach the pages of a book as they would the different moments of a life.