Photo: Bibiana Huang Matheis
I am a multidisciplinary and multimedia ART(IV)IST. I adopted this term years ago, when I realized that artists should never lose the poetics in our artistic voice, even while advocating and being engaged with what we believe is part of our responsibility. My practice is guided by a commitment to life, peace, and environmental sustainability.
Based in NY since 2018, I was born in São Paulo to French/Mexican parents. Foreigner everywhere with scattered roots and memories, I live and produce in search of my place and my peers.
In my studio I am a wizard! That’s where I hide my secrets, where the process of “doing” happens! Dreams, fears, visions and memories are mixed and transformed into colors, shapes and textures. I know the potion I want to make and for which purpose. But the result is always a surprise.
Family diaspora led me to seek an understanding of identity formation and the construction of self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is not a personal matter, but a universal necessity: an attempt to give meaning to existence. I have questioned since childhood what promotes its development, in both its individual and collective nature. Today I understand that MEMORY and CONNECTIONS are fundamental axes: with our place in space and time, with the other, and especially with the self. I produce performances, actions, installations and interventions that offer situations of connection with the environment (grounding experiences and habitation); with others (dialogues); and immersive situations of self-connection. As I multimedia artist, I work with video, photography, print, mixed media and painting, exploring the synesthetic potential at the limits, transitions and overlays of those diverse medias.
Lygia Clark in her search for the “Structuring of the Self”, and Moshe Feldenkrais with his Awareness Through Movement method, are prime references. Biology, my first training, is an inspiring source in terms of thematic and creative process.