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Installation, 2010 Asphalt collected pieces Variable dimensions

Sculpture, 2010 Bricks, mirrors, iron tap, water, and electro-mechanics 60x50x40cm

Sculpture, 2010 Wood, aluminum, brass, galvanized and bricks 180x180x50cm

Sculpture, 2010 Chemically aged steel sheet 65x80cm

Installation, 2010 Bricks, crushed bricks, wood frame and glass 120x180cm

Installation, 2010 Asphalt collected pieces Variable dimensions

Sculpture, 2010 Bricks, mirrors, iron tap, water, and electro-mechanics 60x50x40cm

Sculpture, 2010 Wood, aluminum, brass, galvanized and bricks 180x180x50cm

Sculpture, 2010 Chemically aged steel sheet 65x80cm

Installation, 2010 Bricks, crushed bricks, wood frame and glass 120x180cm



Provoked Archaeologies #2
Installation, 2019
Excavated soil in the Amazonia rainforest, branches, and sisal rope
Variable Measures
EXHIBITION VIEWS

SUBJECTIVE SUBSTANCE
Porvoon Taidehalli - Finland
September / October 2023
This exhibition investigates matters pertaining to the various manifestations of the energy concept. Through experimental approaches, projections of light onto reflective surfaces, and arrangements incorporating fossil fuel residues and electromechanical systems, the artworks transmute the phenomenological hues of notions of energy. The works navigate the conceptual subjectivity of this notion, serving as a pivotal element for speculating on energy as a substance that not only inhabits but also connects the realms of reality, fiction, and spiritual.
The realization of this exhibition was supported by Svenska Kulturfonden and Arts Promotion Centre Finland TAIKE. Special thanks for the collaboration and support of Innobrand Oy.
Photos: Leandro Lefa @llefa
HOW TO POSTPONE THE END
HAM - Helsinki Art Museum - Finland
October / November 2021
The exhibition 'How to Postpone the End' invites reflections concerning the intrinsic relations between the degradation of ecosystems caused by modern large-scale industrial processes and the long history of exploitation of natural resources, invasion of territories, and the extermination of populations and cultures produced by the still ongoing colonization processes around the world, including in South America, where the artist comes from. Through the contrast of concepts such as degradation, development, and ancestrality, the exhibition suggests an encounter among modern and rudimentary technologies and a clash between scientific perspectives and the ancient and grounded ‘cosmovision’ to mitigate this fearful, disturbed, and impersonal corporeity of the so absent contexts of the present, in the attempt to avoid or at least to postpone the end.
The realization of this exhibition was supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland, the Finnish Cultural Foundation, and the Brazilian Embassy in Helsinki.
Video documentation here.
Photos: © HAM / Kirsi Halkola / Felipe de Ávila Franco
Video: Luis Sartori do Vale
