A curation by Giulia Falcone, Art Expert || • Curator • Senior Advisor • Critic • Mentor at International Galleries and Institutions - Every emotion leaves an invisible trace — a signal the body translates into memory, gesture, movement. In the works of award-winning artist Juca Máximo, what we see is never just a figure: it is the form the soul takes when it tries to become matter. In his solo exhibition Shadows and Signals, in dialogue with FIAC and Art Basel Paris, Máximo explores the inner structure of emotion — suspended between the intimate depth of absence and the vital energy of the invisible connections that unite us. The psychic fibers of fragmented bodies, hiding them vulnerabilities behind masks, find space and completion in the emotional resonance of those who observe them. In this dialogue, as silent as it is dense, the shadows of oblivion are crossed by ethereal currents. They carry with them vitality, lightness, and the Nietzschean acceptance of Amor Fati — to love one's destiny as an act of total presence. Like beams of light, the lines that composed his figures transmit the vibrations of life. Thus, silence becomes movement, and Máximo's painting becomes an anatomy of the invisible — a space where the body resonates, and fragility turns into light.