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Culture on Target

Bi-component ink and screen printing on tambourine.

30.2 x 30.2 x 5.2 cm (each)
Ed. 16 + 2PA
2026

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Edition produced in collaboration with Carbono Gallery, São Paulo

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Cornerstone I (Fundamental Milestones)

Stones, vault rotors (metal part), epoxy resin

24 x 51 x 35 cm
2025

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Installation views at After the Silence duo show
Orlando, São Paulo

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On the Impossibility of Social Balance (Speculative Spaces)

Wood, laser engraved text, silicone rubber, stainless steel and metal parts

160 x 120 x 5 cm (aprox.)
2025

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Installation views at After the Silence duo show

Orlando, São Paulo

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New air is not always good air

Museum showcase made of glass and aluminum, autonomous air conditioning system and microclimatic control

185 x 100 x 125 cm

2024

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Installation views at Uncertain Heritage solo show
Capela do Morumbi, City Museum of São Paulo

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Embargo

Iron chain, manual chain hoist, safety hooks, metal washers and clips, natural fiber rope (jute)

Variable dimensions
2024

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Installation views at Uncertain Heritage solo show
Capela do Morumbi, City Museum of São Paulo

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Future Expectations I

Roasted coffee beans, pebbles, coins, cowrie shells, dentures.
Variable dimensions.
2024

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Installation views at Uncertain Heritage solo show
Capela do Morumbi, City Museum of São Paulo

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Natrural Capital

Black earth, irrigation system and seeds of agricultural, organic, pioneer, ornamental and original plants. Collaboration and supervision Ana Kamitusji.
63,9 m2
2024

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Installation views at Uncertain Heritage solo show

Capela do Morumbi, City Museum of São Paulo

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Lorem Ipsum / Objects Never Die

Curatorial project 

2024

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Installation views at C.A.M.A Project and Verniz Design shop, São Paulo

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Poison and Value (a Silent Catastrophe)
Insect trap, plastic parts, electric cables, aluminum, led lights, steel cable, sound track
Variable dimensions
2021

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Installation views at I kept Having these Dreams duo show
Dresden Kunstverein

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Tomorrow I will Remember Nothing

Solo show

2019

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Installation views at Luisa Strina Gallery, São Paulo

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Conservative Punitive Abstract Schemes (series)
Laser-cut acrylic and rotogravure by Di Cavalcanti  
40 x 50 x 4 cm
2018

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Installation views at Tomorrow I will Remember Nothing solo show

Luisa Strina Gallery, São Paulo

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Anhanguera/Bandeirantes

Chemogravure in bas relief, brass and automotive paint

64 x 57 cm
2015

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Collection of MAC Paraná 

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Acculturation is (not) Integration series

Ceramic vase, graphic interventions (gouache) and concrete
125 cm x 55 cm d.
2015

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Installation view at Colonial Enterprise group show. Caixa Cultural, São Paulo
Collection of MAC Paraná 

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Contract of Risk

Solo show

2015

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Installation views at Luisa Strina Gallery, São Paulo

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Contract of Risk (the Worker, Politician, Intelectual and Revolutionaire)

Oxidized iron cast, silicon ruber, aluminum, wood, varnish
119,5 x 50 x 42,5 cm
2009-2015

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Installation views at Contract of Risk solo show

Luisa Strina Gallery, São Paulo

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Basta de la Ayuda, Hablemos de Repraciones

Solo show

2016

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Installation views at Prometeo Gallery, Milano

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Framings

Printed matter, inkjet print on paper, cutout passpartout, plexiglas box. 11 works, each 93 x 67 x 4 cm.
2016

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Exhibited at Basta de la Ayuda, Hablemos de Repraciones
solo show at Prometeo Gallery, Milano

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Afastando el Pueblo, Fantasmas de la Riqueza

Vídeo full HD, color, sound
21min
2016

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Developed during Lugar a Dudas Residency. 

Exhibited at Basta de la Ayuda, Hablemos de Repraciones solo show at Prometeo Gallery, Milano

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The End of Beauty (I)

Cement, metal structure, electrostatic paint and chemical patinas
221 x 200 x 215 cm

2019

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Installation views at Tomorrow I will Remember Nothing solo show

Luisa Strina Gallery, São Paulo
FAMA Collection

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Sugar in the Veins (Sugar Blues) series

Wall sets of burnt drawings made of sugar, tea and coffee on tracing paper

29.5 x 41 cm (each)
2017

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Produced during Gasworks Residency, London

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Shock

carbon steel, plywood, metal structure, sergeants
141 x 67 x 40 cm
2019

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Installation views at Tomorrow I will Remember Nothing solo show

Luisa Strina Gallery, São Paulo

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48% = 1%  [yellow green]
Tempera and acrylic on fabric on plywood
47.2 x 62.8 cm
2019 

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Installation views at Tomorrow I will Remember Nothing solo show

Luisa Strina Gallery, São Paulo

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Tomorrow I will Remember Nothing

Bronze cast and silver nitrate patina
30 x 50 x 1 cm
2019

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Installation views at Tomorrow I will Remember Nothing solo show

Luisa Strina Gallery, São Paulo

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Brazil has a Huge Past Ahead

Bronze cast and silver nitrate patina
34 x 39 x 1 cm
2019

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Installation views at Tomorrow I will Remember Nothing solo show

Luisa Strina Gallery, São Paulo

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OSPB
Wood, concrete, rope and books

122 x 80 x 52 cm

2019

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Installation views at Tomorrow I will Remember Nothing solo show

Luisa Strina Gallery, São Paulo

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The Dispute over the Signs
Oxidized cast iron

43 x 40 x 14 cm
2019

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Installation views at Tomorrow I will Remember Nothing solo show

Luisa Strina Gallery, São Paulo

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Transition Object (from Mechanical to Electronic)

Metal frame, automotive paint, Olivetti typewriter (letter 85 with swapped keys), and machined granite base. 1.42 x 0.5 m (diameter)
2015

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Installation views at Foundations of Design Substance: Cultural Metaphors for Designing a New Future solo show. Oca Ibirapuera / City Museum of São Paulo. Produced with support from the Graham Foundation and City Museum of São Paulo.

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The End of Work

Video Installation in 3 channels
HD video, sound, color

20'30″
2019

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Commissioned by Beyond Archive project
CareOf, Milan

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Foundations of Design Substance:
Cultural Metaphors for Designing a New Future

Solo show
2015

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Installation views OCA Ibirapuera

City Museum of São Paulo

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Operational structure for a conceptual field: Centro direzzionale (diagram transformed into structure)

Metal structure, CNC-engraved MDF sheets (low relief), automotive paint, sandblasted tempered glass, and carved granite

12 m2 (three modules measuring 2.05 x 2.4 x 0.05 m each)
2015

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Installation views at Foundations of Design Substance: Cultural Metaphors for Designing a New Future solo show. Oca Ibirapuera / City Museum of São Paulo. Produced with support from the Graham Foundation and Mercosul Biennial.

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Projections (Plans in Progression) series

Technical instruments, tools, gauges, kapok plywood, BR Petrobras Gray enamel, oil paint
Diverse dimensions
2015

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Installation views at Contract of Risk solo show

Luisa Strina Gallery, São Paulo

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From Abstract Orders to Material Progress II

Cinder blocks, fabric flag, oil paint, bitumem, copper, wood, stainless steel, cotton cord. Brass plaque engraved in bass relief with automotive painting
Sculpture  42 x 100 x 235 cm 
Brass plaqu
e 60 x 80 cm
2010-2013

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Phantom Matrix (Old Structures, New Glories)

Sugar cane wooden mill, electric motor, old metal parts, sound system 
900 x 600 cm
2016

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Installation view at SITU Project

Leme Gallery, São Paulo
FAMA Collection

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Remediations

Video, TV, DVD player, furniture, ceramic and concrete blocks, plexiglass, plywood, printed matter, paint over inkjet prints
28 m2 

2010-2014

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Installation view Temporada de Projetos

Paço das Artes São Paulo

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Functional Park
Solo show and public intervention
2015

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Installation views at Funarte Marquise

Brasília, Brasil

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Soil Laboratories 

Socially engaged project with agro-communities to establish DIY workshops to produce functional artifacts with soil and derivatives

2023

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Activities at Vergel MST settlement. Pilot phase enabled by the support of Museum is the World Prize

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Anti Ego Device

Movement sensor, electric motor, plexiglass, metal parts, wires

58 cm diam.
2006-2017

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It's all Allegory

Chemo-engraving in bas relief, brass, black automotive paint

56 x 64 x 3 cm 

2015

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Installation views at Contract of Risk solo show

Luisa Strina Gallery, São Paulo

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Dirty Abstractions series

Screen printing on fabric, MDF, concrete relief
concrete slab 62 x 62 x 6 cm
screen printing 56 x 38 cm
2015

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Installation views at Contract of Risk solo show

Luisa Strina Gallery, São Paulo

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Precarious forms in an unstable arrangement
(the Reverse of Symbols: Value / Time / Representation)

Carbon steel, kapok plywood, silicone rubber, automotive paint, 20 cruise coin cents (1977) 
87.5 x 80 x 70 cm

2015

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Installation views at Contract of Risk solo show

Luisa Strina Gallery, São Paulo

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Reaches and Limits (from Abstract Orders
to Territorial Exploration)

Laser-cut stainless steel, rusty iron, aluminum, electrostatic painting, wood (partially burned), brass plate engraved inbas relief, automotive paint
Brass plate 60×80 cm

Sculpture 117 x 120x 90 cm
2015

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Installation views at Contract of Risk solo show

Luisa Strina Gallery, São Paulo

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Peace in the Jungle (Dark Matter series)

Oil painting intervention on paper – map and pages from old magazines
87,5 x 173 cm 
2013 - 2015

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El Museo Impossible de las Cosas Vivas - Departamento de Integración Pan Continental (area de contacto triangular)

Security light, rocks, fabric, metal, glass, plastic, brass, ink jet photo print, wood, cotton strings
Variable dimensions
2014

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Installation view at PARC Art Fair. Lima, Peru
Collection of MAC Paraná 

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Al Pueblo Peruano

Photocopy of a supposedly hand written letter of the daughter of a former president distributed in Lima door to door, glass, wood, popular national flag.
128x72x6,5 cm
2014

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Integrates the project El Museo Impossible de las Cosas Vivas - Departamento de Integración Pan Continental (area de contacto triangular)

 

Installation view at PARC Art Fair. Lima, Peru
Collection of MAC Paraná 

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Brasilia Broadcast II

Wooden flagpole, sound archive, loudspeaker, mp3 player, electric power, steel wire, metal structure, bricks, stones and tools
Variable dimensions
2006-2015

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Installation view at the 37th Panorama of Brazilian Art

Museu de Arte Moderna - MAM, São Paulo

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Tripartite Reunited

Die-cast aluminum, acrylic plate, rubber tubular frame, automotive paint, resin, printed graphic image mounted on methacrylate
Sculpture 94 x 63 x 57 cm
Wooden base 60 x 60 x 90 cm
Methacrylate 80 x 80 cm

2009-2013

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Installation view 33rd Panorama of Brazilian Art
Museu de Arte Moderna - MAM, São Paulo

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The Promise of a New Transparency, between the Interior and the Exterior – Facade transformed into a Timeline (after the ICO IVREA factory facade – 1939)

Metal profile structures, automotive paint, galvanized steel tiles (trapezoidal), acrylic plates and UV printing. 4 panels with a total measurement of 2.75 x 9 linear meters
2015

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Installation views at Foundations of Design Substance: Cultural Metaphors for Designing a New Future solo show. Oca Ibirapuera / City Museum of São Paulo. Produced with support from the Graham Foundation and City Museum of São Paulo.

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Design, art, and industry (display referencing the Spazio work table, designed by the BBPR studio for Olivetti, 1959)

Metal structure, LED, wood, glass, and historical printed material
(folder from the Olivetti exhibition at MOMA NY, 1952)

160 x 100 x 216 m
2015

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Installation views at Foundations of Design Substance: Cultural Metaphors for Designing a New Future solo show. Oca Ibirapuera / City Museum of São Paulo. Produced with support from the Graham Foundation and City Museum of São Paulo.

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Foundations of Design Substance:
Cultural Metaphors for Designing a New Future

Solo show
2015

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Installation views OCA Ibirapuera

City Museum of São Paulo

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The Life of the Centers

Photobook 152 p. Color / B&W, ISBN 9788562114229
Inkjet print mounted on dibond, wall installation with 42 photo-text pieces (book spreads). 
180 x 900 cm
2011-2013

 

Installation view at Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro
IPHAN Collection

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No fear of the raw (or), how to reverse one’s own gaze. Performed notes on the phantoms of wealth

Lecture performance

2018

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Presented at Live Works / Supercontinent performance award Centrale FIES. Dro, Italy

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IPO (Aesthetic Unity, Economic Distribution)

Mural painting composed of geometric-abstract pattern based on the Petrobras BR oil distributer logo
Variable dimensions
2017

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Installation view 37th Panorama of Brazilian Art

Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo

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