ERNESTO NETO
Ernesto Neto: SunForceOceanLife (solo show)
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
8 March – 7 September 2026
Ernesto Neto’s soaring crochet installation SunForceOceanLife is exhibited at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. A major commission by the museum, SunForceOceanLife suspends visitors some 12 feet in the air as they navigate an interior network of hand-woven passages. Rooted in a crochet technique passed down from Neto’s grandmother, the work merges craft traditions with contemporary practice, and connects viewers to ideas of ecology, spirituality, and sensory awareness.
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Camelocama (installation)
Flamboyant Shopping, Goiânia
Ernesto Neto's Camelocama, 2010, is now on view at the Flamboyant Shopping Centre in Goiânia. Evoking the canopy of a tree, the crochet installation takes inspiration from the makeshift architecture of street vendors in the artist's native Brazil and uses gravity as its central element, inviting visitors to lay under or walk through the structure's hanging appendages.
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Slug Turtle, TemplEarth, 2022 (installation)
Commissioned by Qatar Museums, Qatar
Ernesto Neto’s immersive installation Slug Turtle, TemplEarth, 2022, has been unveiled in the desert of Qatar’s northernmost region, near the Al Zubarah and Ain Mohammed heritage sites. Composed of 8 football goal frames arranged in an octagonal ring and surrounded by white crocheted netting, the site-specific installation invites viewers to communicate with the spirit of the desert. ‘The work creates a space to meditate about our present, past and future in a social-ecological network shared by humans, birds, bugs, plants and all forms of life,’ the artist explains.
The work joins more than 100 public artworks commissioned by Qatar Museums in time for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.