We believe in the power of ideas. From them, our work teams and the spirit that drives the development of our projects are born. Most projects are coordinated by Vivi Méndez and/or Dado Amaral.
Vivi Curtis
Artist
Vivi Méndez is a Chilean visual and performance artist based in Paris.
Her work intertwines poetry, performance, visual arts, and textile practices.
Vivi Curtis is a Chilean visual artist and performer based in Paris. Her work brings together poetry, performance, visual arts, and textile practices. Through the project Découdre des Patrons, she explores a new approach to sewing as a critical and collective tool, aiming to rethink the symbolic and social structures of clothing. In parallel, she develops research on individual mythology through her alter ego Curtis Putralk.
She has founded several art spaces and collectives in Paris, such as galerie Bref, La Casa Povera, and currently La Centrale 22 and Panamérica Transatlântica, an art and carnival collective based in Rio de Janeiro, of which she is the founder and artistic director.
In the editorial field, she takes part in projects related to poetry and the artist’s book, and is currently collaborating with the French publishing house éditions MF on the creation of a collection of contemporary Chilean poetry.
Dado Amaral
Artist
Dado Amaral is a Brazilian multidisciplinary artist whose work moves between cinema, theater, and literature.
Dado Amaral is a Brazilian multidisciplinary artist whose work moves between cinema, theater, and literature. Born in Rio de Janeiro, he began his career in the performing arts, working as an actor, assistant, and theater director before devoting himself to audiovisual creation.
He has directed several short films, including The Gentileza Trilogy, a series of documentaries about the Prophet Gentileza —a mythical figure of Brazilian popular culture—, on whom he also organized a book dedicated to his visual work.
In 1989, he founded the collective Boato, active for more than a decade in Rio, which brought together poetry, performance, music, and video. The group released the album Abracadabra (Warner Brasil) and the experimental short film Boato: An Autodefinitude.
Holder of a PhD in Literature, Dado Amaral has published two poetry books and one short story collection. He created and coordinated the Ponto de Cultura Na Boa Companhia, a project focused on art and education for young people in Rio de Janeiro.
Based in Paris since 2015, he founded the La Centrale 22 association, dedicated to Latin American cultural exchange in the French capital. The association is also a co-producer of his feature film Today Far Away, Many Leagues (2025), which premiered at the Cinéma du Réel festival.