Saudade brings together new works by Denver-based artist Peter Strange Yumi and JDP Anderson, mapping a visual dialogue rooted in distance, memory, and movement between the United States and Brazil.
Centering on JDP and Yumi’s experiences traversing the coastal trails, urban centers, and landscapes of São Paulo and beyond, the exhibition explores the untranslatable Portuguese concept of saudade—a deep emotional state of melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves, and the lingering ache of places left behind.
Through a striking collection of photographs, abstract paintings, mixed-media collages, and print works, the artists investigate how personal geography shapes identity, how memory settles into physical materials, and the enduring pull of distant horizons.
