Detail of the artwork Corpo Oculto

Explores absence as a historical and political construction. The Black body, often erased, silenced, or displaced from spaces of visibility, persists as a latent presence — an existence that resists even when it is not fully seen.

The work investigates invisibility not as emptiness, but as a field charged with memory, strength, and continuity. What is not entirely revealed still pulses: in restrained gestures, in the marks of time, in the layers that conceal and, at the same time, unveil.

Within the _ID Black Bodies_ project, this piece proposes a reflection on modes of existence that escape the dominant gaze. Invisible presence is also strategy, protection, and endurance — a body that, even when hidden, affirms its identity and claims its place in the world.

Series: ID CORPOS NEGROS

ID Corpos Negros (ID BLACK BODIES) is a series that articulates visual arts, technology, and contemporary Afro-Brazilian narratives with AR activation, focusing on valuing the narrative, memory, and aesthetic cultural production of black bodies in Brazilian society.

Corpo Oculto

Detail of the artwork **SECÇÕES**

**INTERSECTIONS OF CULTURE – We Are Multiple**

This work reflects on the impact of the African diaspora on the formation of Black identities in Brazil. Through displacement and cultural encounters, multiple forms of existence emerge. The black body stands as a territory of memory, knowledge and power.

Series: ID CORPOS NEGROS

ID Corpos Negros (ID BLACK BODIES) is a series that articulates visual arts, technology, and contemporary Afro-Brazilian narratives with AR activation, focusing on valuing the narrative, memory, and aesthetic cultural production of black bodies in Brazilian society.

SECÇÕES 

Detail of the artwork

CSM\_K4P031R4

**K4P031R4 (Capoeira)**, as an ancestral expression of resistance and identity, holds a central place in Afro-Brazilian culture. Born from the African diaspora and shaped within the violence of slavery, it transforms body, rhythm, and movement into a language of struggle, celebration, and endurance. More than a physical practice, capoeira is a living memory — a symbolic territory where history, spirituality, and collectivity intertwine.

Within the _ID Black Bodies_ project, this work engages with capoeira as a gesture of re-existence. The Black body, in motion, disrupts narratives of erasure and reclaims its presence in time and space. As in the roda, where each movement carries both ancestry and reinvention, the painting becomes an expanded field in which identity, strength, and belonging are continuously affirmed.

Series: ID CORPOS NEGROS

ID Corpos Negros (ID BLACK BODIES) is a series that articulates visual arts, technology, and contemporary Afro-Brazilian narratives with AR activation, focusing on valuing the narrative, memory, and aesthetic cultural production of black bodies in Brazilian society.

CSM_K4P031R4

Detail of the artwork RUPTURAS TEMPORAIS

**Temporal Ruptures** reflects on the historical fractures caused by slavery in the trajectory of Afro-Brazilian lives. One of the most profound ruptures began with slave ships crossing the Atlantic, transporting millions of Africans violently separated from their lands, families, and cultures.

In Brazil, these individuals had their identities systematically violated: names, dates, documents, and family ties were erased. Such processes created deep gaps in memory and in the possibility of fully reconstructing ancestral origins.

The work emerges from this reflection and from a personal question: _what is my genealogical tree?_ For many descendants of the African diaspora in Brazil, tracing it remains a challenge shaped by historical erasures produced by colonial systems—structures that are still publicly commemorated through monuments and official narratives across the country.

Series: ID CORPOS NEGROS

ID Corpos Negros (ID BLACK BODIES) is a series that articulates visual arts, technology, and contemporary Afro-Brazilian narratives with AR activation, focusing on valuing the narrative, memory, and aesthetic cultural production of black bodies in Brazilian society.

Rupturas Temporais - Serie

Detail of the artwork CORPO ARQUIVO

**Corpo Arquivo (Body Archive)** examines the body as a living repository of memory. Each figure carries traces of ancestral histories while asserting its presence in the present, inscribing new narratives of identity, continuity, and self-determined protagonism.

Series: ID CORPOS NEGROS

ID Corpos Negros (ID BLACK BODIES) is a series that articulates visual arts, technology, and contemporary Afro-Brazilian narratives with AR activation, focusing on valuing the narrative, memory, and aesthetic cultural production of Black bodies in Brazilian society.

Corpo Arquivo

**Series: JAM**

JAM: Jazz Action Midnight 

Series investigates painting as a live and expanded artistic event. The works are created in real time in interaction with artists from other disciplines, such as music and dance, creating a collective environment where gesture, rhythm and presence become integral parts of the pictorial process.

Developed between 1997 and 2013, the series traveled through different cultural contexts in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, Munich (Germany) and Florida (USA), exploring painting as a performative language and a meeting point between visual arts and performance.

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