Visual artist and photographer, his works tackle social and racial issues, as well as topics related to the identity and the memory of the Afro-Brazilian culture. Exhibitions: São Paulo-Valência Biennial (2007); 5th Rencontres de la Photographie Africaine (Bamako, 2003); 6th Havana Biennial (1997); Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (1996 and 1998). He lives and works in Diamantina.
The series is composed of seven large images printed on cotton paper from negatives of analogical images treated in a photo lab. In his research, the artist sought documents, archives, and testimonies of residents and merchants of the port area traditionally known as Valongo, in Rio de Janeiro, the entrance spot for more than half of African slaves between the 17th and 19th centuries in Brazil. The juxtaposition of memories in these images—which came from archives and records made by the artist—, together with interventions with stamps and layers of acrylic paint, not only reclaims the history of the place and of the enslaved black people, but brings tension to the very possibility to represent death and memory.
