Brazil, Chile, Portugal, Germany, France, Benin, the United States
Media
Mural · stencil · body painting · projection
Usually
With other people
I started painting in public in Rio in 2009, while I was studying art history at UERJ. Everything else on this site grew out of that: the patterns, the projections, the ceramics, the films.
A wall is the only studio that argues back. You paint at the speed of the light and the weather, the neighbours have opinions, and when you leave, the work belongs to the street rather than to you.
Year by year, and where each wall was: Rio, Berlin, Saint-Denis, Fortaleza, Macaé, Chile, Lisbon, New York, Cotonou, São Paulo. Some of these walls are gone. Most of the good ones were painted with somebody else.
2010 · Rio de Janeiro, Morro da Conceição
My first street art project: figures from other centuries painted life-size on the walls and steps of the hill, in the port zone of Rio.
Morro da Conceição, 2010DetailOn a street corner, Morro da Conceição, 2010Morro da Conceição, 2010Morro da Conceição, 2010Morro da Conceição, 2010Rio de Janeiro, 2010
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Morro da Conceição, 2010DetailOn a street corner, Morro da Conceição, 2010Morro da Conceição, 2010Morro da Conceição, 2010Morro da Conceição, 2010Rio de Janeiro, 2010
2010 · Berlin
Philosophers in the snow: Nietzsche, Hegel, Kant and Schopenhauer, painted over the graffiti.
Berlin, winter 2010The wall in the snowPaintingNietzscheHegelKantSchopenhauerOver the graffiti
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Berlin, winter 2010The wall in the snowPaintingNietzscheHegelKantSchopenhauerOver the graffiti
2011 · Saint-Denis, France
Painted on paper and pasted on the streets of Saint-Denis during my exchange year at Paris 8: portraits, and figures carrying their own heads.
Saint-Denis, 2011Saint-Denis, 2011Figures carrying headsA hooded figureDetailPassers-byOn a shopfrontPortraitPortraitPortraitDetailAmong the graffitiPaper on the wall“Saint Denis en tête d’affiche”, in the local paper, 2011
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Saint-Denis, 2011Saint-Denis, 2011Figures carrying headsA hooded figureDetailPassers-byOn a shopfrontPortraitPortraitPortraitDetailAmong the graffitiPaper on the wall“Saint Denis en tête d’affiche”, in the local paper, 2011
2011 and 2012 · Caminho, in Rio, Fortaleza and Macaé
Using a photo by Angela Rolim, taken at Morro da Conceição in the port zone of Rio de Janeiro, I made a digital distortion of the image to enhance the perspective’s illusion. After pasting the photographic enlargement on a wall, I continued the work with spray paint and acrylics, creating characters who looked like the people who live there.
Intrigued by the illusive effect, I decided to reassemble it in other contexts. I always try to adapt the painting and collage to their new surroundings, making characters and painted architectures that refer to local specificities.
It was first made at Morro da Conceição during a feminist NGO mural event I coordinated, then shown at the 63rd Fortaleza Art Salon, and redone with Julia Suav at the II Kolirius International Festival in Macaé, Rio de Janeiro state.
Morro da Conceição, Rio de Janeiro, 2011. Photo by Paulo Barros63rd Fortaleza Art Salon, 201263rd Fortaleza Art Salon, 2012. Photo by Danielle TravassosFortaleza, detail. Photo by Danielle TravassosWith Julia Suav, II Kolirius International Festival, Macaé, 2012
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Morro da Conceição, Rio de Janeiro, 2011. Photo by Paulo Barros63rd Fortaleza Art Salon, 201263rd Fortaleza Art Salon, 2012. Photo by Danielle TravassosFortaleza, detail. Photo by Danielle TravassosWith Julia Suav, II Kolirius International Festival, Macaé, 2012
2011 to 2013 · Brazil
Walls and collective murals, 2011 to 2013.
Made during Meeting of Favela 2011, a grassroots street art festivalQuem ama abraça, collective mural with Rede Nami, Rua Camerino, Rio de Janeiro, 2011Collective mural with Rede Nami, Teatro Municipal Ziembinski, Rio de Janeiro, 2011Opening night of a Rede Nami project I coordinated, 20112011Collective mural with Rede Nami for the Fundação Roberto Marinho, painted with Diana Rosa and Julia Suav, 2012Painting the Fundação Roberto Marinho mural, 2012Collective mural, Rio de Janeiro, 20122012With Julia Suav, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, 2012Jardim Botânico, Rio de Janeiro, 2012Norte Comum, Rio de Janeiro, 2013Meeting of Favela, 2013Meeting of Favela, 2013DetailDetailDetailPainting at CEDAE, Rio de Janeiro2013
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Made during Meeting of Favela 2011, a grassroots street art festivalQuem ama abraça, collective mural with Rede Nami, Rua Camerino, Rio de Janeiro, 2011Collective mural with Rede Nami, Teatro Municipal Ziembinski, Rio de Janeiro, 2011Opening night of a Rede Nami project I coordinated, 20112011Collective mural with Rede Nami for the Fundação Roberto Marinho, painted with Diana Rosa and Julia Suav, 2012Painting the Fundação Roberto Marinho mural, 2012Collective mural, Rio de Janeiro, 20122012With Julia Suav, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, 2012Jardim Botânico, Rio de Janeiro, 2012Norte Comum, Rio de Janeiro, 2013Meeting of Favela, 2013Meeting of Favela, 2013DetailDetailDetailPainting at CEDAE, Rio de Janeiro2013
2013 · Chile
Murals painted in Chile in 2013, the year of the CONCEGRAFF festival in Concepción.
Chile, 2013The whole wallDetailDetailBy the riverDetailPaintingChile, 2013ChileChileChileChile
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Chile, 2013The whole wallDetailDetailBy the riverDetailPaintingChile, 2013ChileChileChileChile
2013 · Berlin
Berlin, 2013Amarildo, painted in Berlin in 2013Amarildo, detail“Das ist sinnlos, über Hegel hier zu sprechen.” Urban Spree, Berlin, 2013DetailUrban Spree, Berlin, 2013
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Berlin, 2013Amarildo, painted in Berlin in 2013Amarildo, detail“Das ist sinnlos, über Hegel hier zu sprechen.” Urban Spree, Berlin, 2013DetailUrban Spree, Berlin, 2013
2014 · Santiago, Chile
La Lucha Mapuche en el Mapocho: a mural with Injusticia on the banks of the Mapocho river, supported by the Red de Apoyo a los Presos Políticos Mapuche, December 2014.
The Mapocho, Santiago, 2014Painting from the riverbedDetailDetail
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The Mapocho, Santiago, 2014Painting from the riverbedDetailDetail
2014 · Rio de Janeiro, Pedra do Sal
Pedra do Sal, 2014DetailDetail
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Pedra do Sal, 2014DetailDetail
2014 · Diana, Rio de Janeiro
Diana, Rio de Janeiro, 2014Diana, 2014
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Diana, Rio de Janeiro, 2014Diana, 2014
Eyes on Walls
Eyes painted on walls in Rio, Brasília and Munich, between 2013 and 2016: with Thiago Haule for Zona Imaginária, a UN Women project on domestic violence, and Loomit’s eyes in Munich.
Providência, Rio de Janeiro, 2015Rua Cardoso Júnior, Rio de Janeiro, 2015Metrô, 2014
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Providência, Rio de Janeiro, 2015Rua Cardoso Júnior, Rio de Janeiro, 2015Metrô, 2014
Martian plywood is a great base for murals. Each year we create new ones, then they come down, and the following year we often recombine the pieces into new configurations.
At night the same walls stop being walls. Projection mapping is a Martian tradition, and it turns the paintings into portals.
2021. A jungle painted across the plywood.2022. Blue arches under the solar array.2024. Chiba, with the lettering by Will Simmons and a central flower after Marzipan’s AI version of Kirby’s Mars College logo.2024. Painted with Cekis.2026. Saturn’s Theater of Minds: painting and projections.
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2021. A jungle painted across the plywood.2022. Blue arches under the solar array.2024. Chiba, with the lettering by Will Simmons and a central flower after Marzipan’s AI version of Kirby’s Mars College logo.2024. Painted with Cekis.2026. Saturn’s Theater of Minds: painting and projections.
