Rubem Robierb

Roots to Fly is the most personal and introspective exhibition of my career to date—a visual poem dedicated to the child I once was. A barefoot boy who spent endless afternoons chasing butterflies and fishing along the Mearim River in Maranhão , Brazil.
That boy had no idea he would grow up to be an artist, but he carried a sense of wonder and the belief that life was meant to be extraordinary, just like the fairy tales in his books….

This exhibition explores the relationship between where we come from and the dreams that carry us forward. At its center is the Roots to Fly sculpture—a life-sized of my younger self standing at the bow of a canoe, holding a little lantern, with a mangrove tree growing from his back. It’s a visual metaphor for the journey of life, where roots ground us and dreams give us wings.