Artist info
Ana Raylander Mártis dos Anjos (b.1995, ‘cafundó do mundo’, Brazil) lives and works in São Paulo. She develops long-term projects based on research. She has held solo exhibitions at Museu Mineiro (2024); Galeria Martins & Montero (2024); Galeria Cavalo (2024); Paço das Artes (2023); Centro Cultural São Paulo (2018); and Área Panorâmica de Tui (2017). She has participated in numerous residencies and fellowships at institutions, including the Coleção Moraes-Barbosa (2024), Museu de Arte da Pampulha (2024), Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (2021), and Adelina Instituto (2019). Raylander was awarded the New Artists Award from the Memorial Minas Gerais Vale (2024) and the EDP Residency Award from the Instituto Tomie Ohtake (2018). Her works are in public collections such as MASP (São Paulo) and the Museu de Arte da Pampulha (Belo Horizonte).
Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino (Brazil, 1989) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. They use score, sculpture, text, photography, sound, and video, to address the remaining structures of the transatlantic colonial project. Themes the artist focuses on are institutional critique, language, and objecthood. Recently, the artist has been invested in what they are calling experimental pedagogy. In February 2024, their lecture ‘From Language’ was presented at the Hochschule fur Gestaltung und Kunst Basel, with following presentations at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg, and the Kunsthalle Bremen in January 2025.
Deborah-Joyce Holman is an artist based between London and Basel. Their work has recently been shown in solo exhibitions at Swiss Institute, New York City (2025); Kunstverein Freiburg; TANK Shanghai (both 2024); Kunsthalle Bern (2023); Cordova, Barcelona (2022); Istituto Svizzero, Palermo (2022); schwarzescafé, Luma Westbau, Zurich (2022); Cherish, Geneva (with Yara Dulac Gisler, 2021). From 2020-2022, they were Associate Director at East London arts organization Auto Italia. They were the founding director of 1.1, a platform for early-career practitioners in arts, music and text-based practices, with an exhibition space in Basel, Switzerland, which ran 2015-2020. The artist has curated the 2018 and 2019 annual group exhibitions for the arts and music festival Les Urbaines, Lausanne, presenting newly commissioned works by over 15 international artists.
Samuel Alves de Jesus (São Paulo, 1999) lives and works in Taboão da Serra, Brazil. The artist works with painting, sculpture, video, installation, and drawing. He explores the relationship between nature, divinity, and immateriality in relation to how racial and colonial impacts affect the way we understand human nature. Recent projects include group shows at Gisela Freier Kunstraum Kulturring (Berlin, Germany), Castiglioni (São Paulo, Brazil), Espaço Buero (São Paulo, Brazil), Shmorévaz (Paris, France), CCSP (São Paulo, Brazil), Quase Espaço (São Paulo, Brazil). Upcoming projects in 2025 include solo shows at Yehudi Hollander-Papi (São Paulo, Brazil) and Salon 75 (Copenhagen, Denmark), respectively. In 2024, Alves de Jesus led the workshop ‘The Future of the Image of Nature’ at SESC (Santos, Brazil). In 2022, he was listed as one of the artists of his generation to keep an eye on by Tropix Editorial (São Paulo, Brazil).
Samara Paiva (Maués, 1995) is a visual artist who lives and works in São Paulo. Her artistic practice consists of research through painting the behavior of the black body in the domestic spatiality and its relation with intimacy. Samara delves into how this ambient allows humanization and vulnerability to be constantly taken from those bodies, giving space for contemplation and a margin for subjectivity. Exploring the plasticity of materials is one of the pillars of her practice to blur the line between concrete and the abstract. For the artist, low contrast, the night, and the shadows are instruments of freedom. In 2022, Paiva was selected to participate in the programs Good Black Art, Ventre of HOA Gallery, the LANCE exhibition at CCSP, and SP Arte – Rotas Brasileiras. Recent projects include a solo show at Casa do Benin in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, in 2024 and group exhibitions at Sesc Belenzinho and Castiglioni Gallery, both in São Paulo, Brazil. In 2023, she was a resident at Pivô Pesquisa, also in São Paulo.
Henrique J. Paris
Henrique J. Paris is an Angolan artist-researcher, graduated in Philosophy and currently completing a postgraduate degree in Architecture at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London. His artistic practice dissects philosophical, scenographic, and architectural frameworks. He examines enacted modes of power, moral codes, anticolonial praxis and Christian discipleship. J. Paris has explored these themes through image-making, multimedia installations, sound-oriented performance and cultural production. These formats serve as tools of contestation, re-memory, and testimony.
His previous projects include the 2019 solo exhibition ‘Home Is Where The Body Isn’t’, Proyecto de Movilidad Panamá-Angola-Portugal with the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) Panama, Álbuns de Família at the Padrão dos Descobrimentos in Lisbon, Body as Testimony with Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts), Field Notes with the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and Family Lines with the Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin.
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