When I was sixteen years old I was already concerned about political and social matters. Out of curiosity, I decided to spend a few days at a camp of the Landless Workers Movement (a social movement for fair land distribution in Brazil), and this experience propelled me into developing photography and audiovisual projects. However, it was after I had my first seizure and learned I was epileptic that I could have a better understanding of the fragility and helplessness of humanity, which led me to seek new ways of artistic expression. I realized that my sensitivity, together with my experience with epilepsy have dramatically changed the way I develop my projects.
All the “Political-Social” projects I was developing through photograph and through urban interventions changed drastically since I discovered my condition as epileptic.
I believe the Projects I used to develop were geared more towards the political side of life, without a connection with the human being himself. Since then I steered my work towards more existential issues of the human being and his relation with the deepest problem of his condition.
My proposal is nothing but the reflex of the mirror in front of the fragile human being, and this brings some understanding of the suffering caused by several factors like terror knowing the death is coming for all humans alive.
The possibility to create and develop projects that reach this being ideologically affected by the social system and by the current rules without fear from ethical issues as basis of my work, trying to dissect this being amidst this important historical moment, with projects that do not make use of “shock” but a constructive reflection triggering a change in the “self “.
Today I create photographic projects, installations and performances with the intellectual development that I use as a foundation for my practice.
