PV DIAS
PV Dias( b. 1994, Belém, Brazil) is a transdisciplinary artist whose practice investigates the way images and narrative constructions of a territory and its people are formed— and how they might be reworked, blurred, or mended. His work critically engages with canonical art systems and exclusionary historiographical traditions. Dias brings together the Black presence in the Amazon and the cultural practices of Indigenous peoples— such as hammocks used for rest, regional dances, and wooden boats employed to navigate the vast rivers of the Amazon basin— with a digital aesthetic rarely associated with the area. This convergence serves as a critical strategy, allowing the artist to question and reframe entrenched cultural distances, such as the distance that separates Brazil from Africa, two lands divided by a river in the Brazilian Amazon, or the artist’ s home city, Belém, and Rio de Janeiro.
Interior de uma casa( Interior of a house)( 2021) is part of the Rasura( Erasure) series( 2019 – 2021), through which Dias interrogates sociohistorical structures marked by omission and systemic silencing. By digitally painting in saturated colors over photographs taken in Rio de Janeiro, the city where he currently lives, the artist evokes layered senses of belonging and displacement. These visual gestures reflect both his personal migration from Belém to Rio and broader macropolitical processes, such as the formation of peripheral urban centers and the enduring legacies of the African diaspora in Brazil.
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