I started to work on this body of work about identity and using images from my personal photo archive back in 2014, since than my experimentation continues to evolve through my curiosities and life experiences. Living abroad for 20 years (today) gave me a personal need to investigate the idea of identity and understand my perfective of the world and who I am in the world. In a world that things change so quickly, and we move faster than never, the need to find ground and talk about our individual identity is essential to remind people that we are unique. Through this curiosity, I started from the beginning, where I was born and raised, Rio de Janeiro. As I continue to experiment with my work, I realised, that everything else becomes a reflection from where I departed, Rio de Janeiro. Everything else mutates with time: my thoughts, people, opinions, perceptions, feelings, and places. But one thing doesn’t change and will never change, is the place where I was born and where I grow up, this is my base. Understanding the place, I come from, and why I look at places, people, and situations a certain way helps me to exist everywhere life takes me.
Displacement is everywhere outside of Rio. Identity will be a constant search. Using my artwork and process to investigate my roots has allowed my work to play with different materials, scale and forms via photo-based works, paintings, installations, and wall murals.
