Via large-scale
installations, paintings and drawings, I create dynamic architectural
landscapes that are inspired by the sprawling, decaying and massive
uncontrolled urbanization of the shantytown communities throughout my native
country Brazil. My work depicts the speed of global cities and overly populated
urban environments, which I seek to convey by layering abstract and figurative
images of winding streets, stairways, network of lights, overhead lines,
intense color and infinite energy. I juxtapose my observations about the
emergence and co-existence of sub-cultural communities, urban decay,
consumerism and global environmental issues by embedding personal and found
photographs that inhabit the spaces and are manipulated in a way that obscures
the particular identities of the figures. Simple materials, ranging from vinyl
and wire to shoe boxes and paint, are used to convey the urgency and energy of
building community with what is at hand. In these inner cities I create, there
a sense of vastness of the communities that look out from thousands of windows
everyday, while raising the question of whether the condition of poverty will
also be infinite.