Adriano Machado

Lives and works in New York, NY, USA

Artist statement

Adriano Machado is a Brazilian visual artist and writer who lives between the cities of Alagoinhas and his hometown, in Bahia, Brazil. Currently is a PhD student in Visual Arts from the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil and New York University (NYU) Visiting Researcher. Creating projects in photography, video and utopic objects who discuss identity, territory, fiction and memory. Working with social geography and how black people invent life policies and poetics. His works point to the human condition between living spaces and Afro-inventive territories. Worked on an emotional relationship with those I photograph, usually my cousins are the models in the images, because our friendship connects us through a relationship of trust. This way, the projects make questions about the traditions of western art of history and the rules of photography from black bodies. Being a black body in this world is already a political act in itself and the adversities to our existence are present, but in the micropolitics promoted by black people towards ourselves, in the works he tries to see a key to thinking about how my work acts in this visual reconfiguration. Printing on various media and materials like wood, plain paper, plastic produce photographic installations. Recently, the works in the exhibitions: Dak'Art - La Biennale De L'Art Africain Contemporain (Dakar, Senegal) 2022; On the shoulders of Giants, Nara Roesler Gallery (New York, US) 2021; Alumiação, Digital Gallery of MoCADA...

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