With a career that began in Since the first decade of the 21st century, Rodrigo Oliveira has developed a multidisciplinary oeuvre, where sculpture and installation predominate, along with an interrogation of cultural systems and their social, economic, political and discursive codifications. From an “in-between” position, as the artist himself describes it, his works seek to engender hybridity, exchange and cultural miscegenation from the aforementioned references, within a varied framework of alterities.

Between 2015 and 2016, Rodrigo Oliveira centeredcentred his research around Brazilian modernist architecture and, in particular, the architectural complex of Brasília designed by Oscar Niemeyer in the second half of the 1950s. Several works followed, including the sculpture - Plataforma #1 (Model for a cathedral)
. The sculpture juxtaposes two elements: - a table and a set of painted bananas. On the cement tabletoptable top, with a modernist design of organic lines, Rodrigo Oliveira drew a simplified plan of the square where Niemeyer built the famous Metropolitan Cathedral, absolutely innovative in its curvilinear manipulation of cement. In place of the Cathedral, the artist placed a set of bananas, with the tips resting on the top and the bases of the stalks resting on each other, in a formal arrangement analogous to the architectural configuration of the church itself. As signs, the bananas, a popular fruit and an important element of leading player in the Brazilian economy, both reflect Niemeyer's utopian modernity, committed to a new egalitarian city for all, and question its contradictions and unpopularity. The perishability of bananas projects not only Niemeyer's monumentalized monumentalised urbanism, hostile to human scale and everyday needs, but also the exclusion of socially disadvantaged populations from his project.