We Lost Lots of Beautiful Things

Elizabeth Xi Bauer is pleased to present We Lost Lots of Beautiful Things, a two-person exhibition bringing together works by Jandyra Waters (b. Brazil, 1921–2025), who was considered one of the pioneers of abstractionism in Brazil, and contemporary artist Theodore Ereira-Guyer (b. UK, 1990). The exhibition stages a cross-temporal dialogue between artists whose practices are separated by decades but aligned by notions of time, scale, and geographic resonance.   

The curatorial premise of this exhibition draws attention to the affinities between both artists at important moments in their careers. All but one of Waters’ paintings on show were produced in the early 1960s, when she was in her early forties. Ereira-Guyer’s body of work, by turn, was made throughout 2025, as he approaches his late thirties – in a similar stage of their lives. Waters’ paintings embody a process of inquiry rather than resolution—an approach that connects deeply with Ereira-Guyer, who also works through intuition and risk rather than predetermined outcomes. His new works are responses to Waters’ surfaces, colour palette, and sense of animated movement, leading him to work with new material considerations for this exhibition. We Lost Lots of Beautiful Things presents an equal number of works by each artist, closely matched in scale, to further underscore this conversation through proximity rather than contrast