Kindred Spirits – Agnes Martin, 2015, is from the artist’s series of portraits named Kindred Spirits, which were first presented at Dallas Contemporary in 2015. To create these works the artist rendered a variety of coloured shapes on paintings of her face with imagery derived from specific works by minimalist masters such as Donald Judd, Frank Stella and Tony Smith, among others. Kindred Spirits – Agnes Martin is inspired by Agnes Martin’s painting Gratitude from 2001.

Born in 1964, Adriana Varejão currently lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2019, the major exhibition Adriana Varejão: Por uma retórica canibal, curated by Luisa Duarte, opened at the Museum of Modern Art, Salvador. Previously, a major retrospective of the artist’s work, Histórias às margens (Histories at the margins), was displayed at the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo (2012). The artist’s work has been widely exhibited within large-scale group exhibitions in institutions including Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (2019-2020); Met Breuer, New York, USA (2019); and MAM Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2019). A permanent pavilion devoted to Adriana Varejão’s work opened in 2008 at Instituto Inhotim in Brazil. An element of the installation was interpreted for a major commission for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.