Born in Buenos Aires in 1943, Marta Minujín became a rebel in 1959, when she secretly married the young economist Juan Carlos Gómez. She was just 16. That same year, still a student, Minujín exhibited her work at the Teatro Agón; then it was on to Paris, to study on scholarship. There she encountered the work of the Nouveaux Realistes, whose idea of transforming art into life soon consumed her. Indeed, in a 1962 exhibition Minujín burned her own paintings. She then worked on “livable sculptures” and invited the likes of Christo and Paul-Armand Gette to destroy them—a happening! Minujín turned 80 in January, and shows no signs of slowing down. “Ao Vivo” is her first solo show in Brazil. —Elena Clavarino