The relations between body and identity and memory and belonging are some of the artist’s main research axes; he works with video, video installation, film, photography, installation, and performance. He was awarded at the 16th Sesc_Videobrasil Contemporary Art Festival (2007) with a residency at the Le Fresnoy, in Tourcoing, France. Some of the collective exhibitions in which he took part are Do Valongo à Favela, Museu de Arte do Rio de Janeiro (2014); the 3rd Bahia Biennial (2014); and the 29th Panorama da Arte Brasileira, at the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (2005). He lives and works in Salvador.
2005, video, 17’20”
courtesy of the artist
Uma is based on a chance event and is comprised of a single shot with no cuts, like the subjective view of a voyeur; it shows a man and a woman hugging each other in the water, at a beach. The choreography of those two bodies suggests that, at broad daylight and in front of everyone, they are making love—the “uma” [a quickie] to which the title refers. The voyeur-like and ironic camera follows the lovers until they both get out of the water and the woman, who looks tired, sits on the sand.
