Desvio Para o Vermelho is one of Meireles' most complex and ambitious works – conceived in 1967, assembled in several versions since 1984, and on permanent display at Inhotim since 2006. It is composed of three interlinked rooms. The first, Impregnação [Impregnation], put together a wide-ranging monochromatic collection of furniture, objects, and works of art. One of them is the Leve armchair, designed by Joaquim Tenreiro in 1942 and one of his most iconic creations. 

In the following environments, Entorno [Surroundings] and Desvio [Shift], we have what the artist calls anecdotal explanations of the same phenomenon as in the first room, where color saturates material to become material. The work is open to a range of symbolism and metaphors, from the violence of blood to ideological connotations, but what interests the artist is to offer the viewer a sequence of sensory and psychological impacts: a series of false logical assumptions that always lead us back to the same starting point.