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Rafael Silvares

Visual artist

Rafael Silvares

Rafael Silvares is a Brazilian visual artist residing in São Paulo.

Rafael will work with photographic journals. One of them will be a photo journal, created with two types of cameras: analog and digital. These images will then be transformed into small drawings or paintings (acrylic, oil, and watercolor). These paintings will be combined with found objects.

“I first think of working with clay, wood, mats, glue, and oil paint, but everything may change depending on my discoveries.”

“I will work with some references that I use as a starting point, primarily texts that refer to becoming, impermanence, and the layer of time deposited in things. I observe the simplicity of everyday objects. In this sense, I have been very connected to the correspondence book of Helio Oiticica and Lygia Clark, more specifically the part where Lygia begins to rummage through Parisian trash cans in search of something that surprises her. Also, Goethe’s botanical work titled The Metamorphosis of Plants, some references of pre-Socratic philosophy, specifically Heraclitus of Ephesus, Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception, Foucault’s The Words and the Things, some poems by Carlos Drummond like Elefante, Gesso by Manuel Bandeira, certain texts by João Cabral de Melo Neto, among other things.

I am very interested in the idea of architectural constructions (like the Mucambos of northeastern Brazil), made with what is around the place, where the poetic dimension is given by the aesthetic mix that occurs in this process. I am interested in the relationship between consumption and the obsolescence of the found elements.”

February 2018 / Paris