Visual artist with an arts degree from Centro Universitário Belas Artes (São Paulo, 2010). His work reveals the the subjectivization processes molded by power institutions, proposing a collective revision and recreation of history. Exhibitions: 10th Bamako Encounters (2015); Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (2015); 2nd Biennale of Young Art (Moscow, 2010). His works are part of the collections of Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo and Museu de Arte do Rio. He lives and works in São Paulo.
The series recaptures the illustrations of the first maps of Brazil and the nautical charts from the times of the Iberian explorations and the so-called “discovery of the New World.” However, different from the originals, colored to portray the region’s exuberance, Lauriano’s cartographic representations produce a visual reduction, utilizing white on black. The harmony found and glorified in the originals is disturbed by the inscription of the terms “invasion,” “ethnocide,” and “cultural appropriation.” The work thus produces a new interpretation of the first efforts to represent the colonization system, unveiling the violence present in the illustrations and in the process of invention of the American continent.
