Récita takes place at Refresco from January 25 to March 1, 2020, curated and conceived by Iah Bahia. The group exhibition, the first held by Refresco, brings together 14 artists. Récita is marked by interdisciplinarity and the multiplicity of media in practice. Blending sculpture, painting, performance, video, dance, and sound, Récita evokes the idea of a score read in unison, where each voice plays a fundamental role in achieving a complete and harmonious whole.

Iah Bahia also describes Récita as a post-apocalyptic event, bringing the idea of a choir closer to a more eschatological imagination. Bahia situates the exhibition within what he classifies as the “afterday of the end of the world,” raising speculations about life after death or history and creating poetics of how to populate the world after its own end. More than a dystopian script, Récita invites the viewer to understand the notion of the end of the world in a less literal and more cyclical way – these are processes through which much of the marginalized Brazilian population has passed since the beginning of colonization. Récita serves as a collective chant denouncing the perpetual and selective apocalypse that has been occurring in Brazil for centuries.

The artists involved in Récita are Orgubani, azullllll, Agrippina R. Manhattan, Ana Matheus Abbade, Bia Martins, Daniel Santiso, Davi Pontes, Fátima Aguiar, Irmãs Brasil, Lucas Carvalho, Matheus Freitas, Naves Cilíndricas, Natasha Ribas, and Vinicius Pinto Rosa.