ART

Imperfect Signal

While restoring my 1990s Nintendo Game Boy, I came across the Game Boy Camera, an accessory that produced images using a 128 × 128 pixel CMOS sensor, roughly 0.014 megapixels. A resolution smaller than the face of a matchbox.

What might have seemed like a technical limitation revealed its own visual language, full of noise and imperfections, and I loved it. I began photographing everything, digitally enlarging the images and printing them in large formats. The pixel came to life, becoming a compositional element. The result? An investigation into what we constantly seek today: perfection, filters, the best angle, the best look. Here, that layer dissolves, and what remains is what truly matters, no filter, no perfection.

Medium: cotton paper, printed with mineral pigments.

Peles/Skins

In this series, I explore the concept of persona, formulated by Carl Gustav Jung, understood as the symbolic masks that shape how we present ourselves socially. The works begin with the construction of faces that emerge from a dense field of lines in organic flows, creating visual layers that suggest multiple identities in constant negotiation. Here, the mask does not appear as an external element, but as a constitutive part of the figure itself. Through a free and intuitive gesture present in drawing exploration, the work proposes a reflection on the boundaries between intimate identity and public representation, revealing how these surfaces overlap, merge, and sometimes become inseparable.

For this series, I worked with figures from the pop imaginary and from history, such as Marilyn Monroe, Amy Winehouse, Caetano Veloso, Barack Obama, Maria Bethânia, Elizabeth I of England, MIck Jagger, Nicholas II of Russia, Paris Hilton, David Bowie, and Madonna, among others.

Medium: freehand illustration (digitized), screen-printed on cotton paper.

Fridge Penguin

The fridge penguin became quite popular in Brazil during the 1950s and 1960s. Today, it is considered a symbol of kitsch and affection, often associated with the nostalgic atmosphere of grandmothers’ kitchens.

During the period when I ran my art studio (2012–2019), I had the opportunity to experiment with many languages and formats. It was also during this time that I began developing signed products and small edition lines. In the middle of this process, I asked myself: what could I create from an emotional and nostalgic reference that would result in an artwork not necessarily meant for the wall? Then it clicked, the image of the penguin came immediately to mind. The result was a series of 300 hand-painted penguins, each numbered and signed, now spread across Brazil, the United States, Spain, England, the Netherlands, Italy, and South Korea.”

Medium: ceramic sculpture, spray, acrylic and marker pens.

Posters

Between 2015 and 2019, the studio operated as a space for the systematic production of commissioned works. Pop icons, celebrities, monuments, logotypes, a deliberately broad repertoire shaped by contemporary visual culture and by a market that recognized in authorial illustration a value beyond the functional. This period yielded a substantial body of work, each piece responding to a distinct brief, yet unified by a consistent visual language and a commitment to graphic and pictorial quality.

Medium: digital illustration, cotton paper, printed with mineral pigments.

POP!

In dialogue with Pop Art, the series elevates the ordinary to the status of an icon. A reinterpretation of something long explored: placing the disposable at center stage.

A cupcake recipe printed on a vodka bottle, a fly resting on a perfume flask—gestures that subvert the object’s original function and reveal, with irony and color, how consumption has long been culture.

The series comprises 30 works that play with everyday items such as bottles, cans, perfume flasks, and more.

Medium: cotton paper, acrylic, marker pens & spray.

New York Diaries

During my time living in New York, I immersed myself fully in the local art scene, galleries, museums, studios, and conversations with artists. It was a period of intense experimentation, open to new techniques and visual languages.

Through an economy of means, a method emerged: drawing over pages from fashion magazines. The existing poses became starting points, each opening a different perspective. The model’s body ceases to be an object of consumption and becomes a support, an improvised canvas for a personal investigation into distance, displacement, and possibility.

The work is introspective, and color enters as an element of openness: it transforms, recontextualizes, and creates a visual refuge where uncertainty gains form and lightness. This is how New York Diaries was born.

Medium: fashion magazine, acrylic, marker pen & stickers.

COLOROIDS

A fascination with analog photography, medium format (120), 35mm, and instant pictures, led, in the early 2010s, to an unintended archive: hundreds of self-portraits made as learning exercises, camera tests, and process studies.

What to do with all of it? The answer came through painting. First markers, then spray, and finally acrylic, layers applied directly onto the photographic records in a process that began as technical and gradually became therapeutic. Over five years, more than 250 portraits were painted, each carrying the weight of the moment in which it was made: line, palette, and visual easter eggs functioning as a non-linear timeline of internal states. Dark moments and extraordinary achievements coexist on the same surface. Photography as support, painting as re-signification, the self-portrait as a living document. The works have circulated across Brazil, the United States, and Europe, with a significant portion sold to private collections.

Medium: Polaroid 600 film, Instax Mini film, Instax Wide film, Fuji peel-apart film, marker pens, acrylic, spray and stickers.

parades

Throughout my career, I have taken part in large-scale urban exhibitions that became a recurring chapter, sculptures in the form of the well-known “parades,” an open-air, democratic showcase, always tied to an important cause and public awareness.

CowParade São Paulo, Monica Parade, Orelhão Vivo, Elephant Parade London, among others.

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