Adriana Varejão

Looking back at an artist with an axe, John Akomfrah bringing the rain to Venice and Stanley Stellar recalling the NY piers

The Rio de Janeiro-based artist explores the history and materiality of the azulejo, the ceramic tile used in Portuguese architecture

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As Varejão’s ‘Saunas and Baths’ paintings and ‘Meat Ruins’ sculptures go on show at Victoria Miro, Venice, the Brazilian artist on her work’s layers of meaning