“Sharp garments for desperate shamans” addresses a series of environmental and behavioral issues, from excessive consumption, large-scale production and consequently the disposal in the same proportion, and its reverberations on environmental issues, to behavioral, establishing a poetic dialogue between intransigence and malleability, by presenting metallic structures that behave like light fabrics. Another contemporary theme that emerges from these wearable objects is the construction of a social identity, very much based on the dynamics of online interaction. What of us is being revealed and what is hidden behind the creation of a persona? And lastly, what is the shamanic and transformative power of wearing a body or face sculpture?

An article from the newspaper Le Monde on April 4 2020 offers evidence that our ways of life are at the origin of pandemics: human development is disturbing ecosystems, and this series of portraits embody the extravagance of wearing symbols of our contemporary society failings.

I live and work in São Paulo, Brazil.