This catalog documents five years of Paulo Nimer Pjota’s monumental montages bridging street culture and high art.

In his practice, Brazilian artist Paulo Nimer Pjota remixes iconographies from pop culture and counterculture as well as art history. His large-format unframed canvases and metal panels feature tribal tattoos, advertisements from bodegas or luxury shops, graffiti tags, and cartoon characters and are often complemented by sculptures the artist places in front of them. By combining mundane objects with references to archaeology and art history, Pjota critiques the hierarchical systems that draw a divide between high and vernacular culture.

The monograph A Lua e Eu (The Moon and I) presents Pjota’s work of the past five years, illustrating the artist’s imposing montage practice. With contributions by Mateus Nunes and Gabi Ngcobo, as well as a conversation between the artist and Hans Ulrich Obrist.