saints & martyrs
1 - queer saints and martyrs in ecstatic moments of doom and apotheosis.
2 - sculptures created to be seen only as photography.
3 – hybrid practice (stage sets, sculpture, painterly gestures, drawing, photography, digital manipulation) - queer in content and form.
4 – ‘saints & martyrs’ re-signify an array of art historical references into a queer genealogy.
5 - queering art history by mixing past religious visual traditions that sublimated the body or where the erotic body was smuggled into visual experience through the depiction of abuse and ecstasy.
6 - from a matrix inspired by the brazilian 18th century baroque (aleijadinho, mestre athaide) to the gay concretism of hélio oiticica, to an international set of influences that include mexica sculpture and masks, greek sculpture (severe style), italian baroque painting (guercino), indian miniature (mughal), u.s. underground film (jack smith, anger), to vernacular images from porn, gay softcore, Hollywood magazines.
7 – in a time of political regression (the impeachment of president dilma, the u.s. elections) a point of view that despite its melancholy affirms itself uncompromisingly as colorful, sensual, quirk, erudite, bodily, alive.
