ArtDayME: The solo exhibition of Brazilian artist Leda Catunda, I like to like what others are liking, is currently on view at Sharjah Art Foundation. Drawing from a world of visual and material excess, Catunda offers a vivid reflection on the sensory saturation of modern-day life. The exhibition title borrows the artist’s own words, reading as a contemporary confession that captures the complex entanglements of taste, desire, and identity.

Marking the artist’s largest monographic presentation outside of Brazil to date, the show brings together a diverse body of work spanning from the 1980s to the present. From large-scale installations to elemental watercolours, each piece embodies a sensuous negotiation between the handmade and the mass-produced, offering a whimsical critique of pop culture and consumerism.

Over four decades, Catunda has reshaped Brazil’s art scene, blurring the lines between painting and sculpture. Her early works featured pattern-like compositions reminiscent of sewing templates, assembled from domestic fabrics, readymade graphics, and products of mass culture. By the 1990s, her practice shifted towards abstraction, replacing printed figuration with organic, bulging forms. In recent years, her work has embraced baroque intensity—pleated drapes, protuberances, lush ornamentation, and proliferating flaps—inviting reflection on the limits and mechanisms of aesthetics.

Catunda’s practice continues to exude urgency and wit, offering not only a critique of pop culture consumption but also a tender, poetic reclamation of the everyday. As the exhibition unfolds, works from different periods invite viewers to consider how visual pleasure, personal memory, and mass imagery coexist messily, playfully, and viscerally.

The exhibition is curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, Director and President of Sharjah Art Foundation, with Meera Madhu, Curatorial Assistant at the Foundation.

The exhibition is on view until 8 February