Paulo Nimer Pjota: Encantados

London, United Kingdom

Ancient myths, street culture, archaeology, dreams — everything collides here at once.

Paulo Nimer Pjota, Duplo, 2025

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Paulo Nimer Pjota, Duplo, 2025. © Paulo Nimer Pjota.

Meet the artist

The Movement

Contemporary Art, Painting

ArtLovers Tip

This exhibition works best when you stop asking “What does it mean?” and start asking “What does it connect to?”

Exhibition Highlights - What you’ll see

In Encantados, Paulo Nimer Pjota creates a world where objects, symbols, histories, and images coexist without hierarchy.

His paintings and installations feel layered like memory itself — fragments of ancient civilizations, graffiti, animals, ceramics, religious references, pop culture, and urban life all sharing the same visual space.

You’re watching:

  • Large-scale paintings filled with symbolic collisions
  • Ceramic works and sculptural elements integrated into the exhibition
  • Surfaces that feel excavated rather than painted
  • A visual language where mythology and contemporary culture merge

Nothing feels fixed. The exhibition works like an open system of associations.

Worth the trip

Because Paulo Nimer Pjota represents a generation of artists rethinking how culture and history are connected.

Rather than separating “high art” from popular imagery, or ancient history from the present, Encantados lets everything coexist simultaneously. The result feels global, contemporary, and deeply personal.

And inside the South London Gallery — one of London’s most respected contemporary art spaces — the exhibition gains an even stronger sense of experimentation and discovery.

How to experience it

Don’t try to decode every symbol → follow associations intuitively

Move between paintings and objects slowly → the connections emerge gradually

Observe how scale changes your relationship to the works

Let your eye wander freely → there’s no single focal point

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