Series: Heritage
Photography and typewriting on 120g sulfite paper
2025
2025
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This work confronts the reality of Black boys’ childhood in a context where the absence of a father figure is common and family structures are formed outside the model of family traditionally presented as the norm.
The series traces the artist’s personal trajectory through photographs from his personal archive and texts written on a typewriter that once belonged to his father. While narrating an intimate experience, the work also echoes the collective reality of many young Brazilians.
Homem da casa
Segundo domingo de agosto
O que eu lembro
Free translation of the texts typed in the artworks:
Homem da casa: Now you are the man of the house. 6 years old
Segundo domingo de agosto: Happy father’s day, mom
O que eu lembro: I don’t remember anything my father ever told me. I remember he never let me fall
