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of reality—a nucleus of torn caning at the center.
Other pieces include Boca, Portuguese for "mouth", a
wall-mounted shelf in cowhide which resembles one of
the shells so beloved by the original practitioners of the
baroque. The Alligator Sofa is a wild patchwork of faux
alligators stuffed and sewn together by Orientavida, an
NGO that employs underprivileged women.
It is, however, in their more recent exhibition at Galleria
O in Rome that the Campanas detonated an conscious
explosion of neo-baroque style with the "Brazilian
Baroque" collection. As Cristina Morozzi writes in her
introduction to the show:
"The Baroque pieces have fractures and conflicts, but
not the painful sense of a glorious era coming to an
Campana Boca Shelf
