NO MARTINS (Brazil, 1987) artistic production moves between techniques related to painting, performance, installation and experimentation with objects, based on research on interpersonal relationships in everyday life, investigating issues such as racism, police violence and mass incarceration. He emerged in the São Paulo street art scene in 2003 through graffiti, later attended engraving workshops at Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, in São Paulo. He has teaching degrees in history and visual arts and has taken part in exhibitions in Brazil and Australia.
With newspaper headlines and statistics of violence against blacks printed over vibrant color portraits, heavily inspired by urban aesthetics, No Martins’s paintings #JÁBASTA! (2019) are both a denunciation and a warning cry. The inscription #Jábasta, inspired by widespread social media campaigns, draws attention to police violence against young black people in the outskirts of large Brazilian cities, assuming a stance of resistance.
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