His solo exhibition—titled ‘Pardo é Papel’ (‘Brown is Paper’) due to both the surface color he paints on and the racial themes he explores—took place last weekend at the favela’s Complexo Esportivo (Sports Complex). The artist is part of a small collective that has started its own church—albeit a church of an unusual sort. Alexandre puts it very simply: “It’s a church of art. Just that.” Alternatively referred to as the Church of the Kingdom of Art, or sometimes A Noiva (The Bride), it is a kind of symbolic offering to the divinity of art.