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Embargo

Iron chain, manual chain hoist, safety hooks, metal washers and clips, natural fiber rope (jute)

Variable dimensions
2024

Installation views Uncertain Heritage solo show
Capela do Morumbi - Museu da Cidade de São Paulo

New air is not always good air

Museum showcase made of glass and aluminum, autonomous air conditioning system and microclimatic control

185 x 100 x 125 cm

2024

Installation views Uncertain Heritage solo show
Capela do Morumbi - Museu da Cidade de São Paulo

Anhanguera/Bandeirantes

Chemogravure in bas relief, brass and automotive paint

64 x 57 cm
2015

Acculturation is (not) Integration series

Ceramic vase, graphic interventions (gouache) and concrete
125 cm x 55 cm d.
2015

Installation view Colonial Enterpreise show
Caixa Cultural São Paulo

Contract of Risk

Solo show

2015

Installation views Luisa Strina gallery 

Contract of Risk (the Worker, Politician, Intelectual and Revolutionaire)

Oxidized iron cast, silicon ruber, aluminum, wood, varnish
119,5 x 50 x 42,5 cm
2009-2015

Basta de la Ayuda, Hablemos de Repraciones

Solo show

2016

Installation views Prometeo gallery 

A Beto Shwafaty, Hablemos de Reparaciones, 2016. Milan, Italy. Installation view-71.jpg

Framings

Printed matter, inkjet print on paper, cutout passpartout, plexiglas box. 11 works, each 93 x 67 x 4 cm.
2016

Exhibited at Basta de la Ayuda, Hablemos de Repraciones
solo show at Prometeo Gallery

Afastando el Pueblo, Fantasmas de la Riqueza

Vídeo full HD, color, sound
21min
2016

Developed during Lugar a Dudas Residency 

The End of Beauty (I)

Cement, metal structure, electrostatic paint and chemical patinas
221 x 200 x 215 cm

2019

Sugar in the Veins (Sugar Blues) series

Wall sets of burnt drawings made of sugar, tea and coffee on tracing paper

29.5 x 41 cm (each)
2017

Produced during Gasworks Residency

Shock

carbon steel, plywood, metal structure, sergeants
141 x 67 x 40 cm
2019

48% = 1%  [yellow green]
Tempera and acrylic on fabric on plywood
47.2 x 62.8 cm
2019 

Tomorrow I will Remember Nothing

Bronze cast and silver nitrate patina
30 x 50 x 1 cm
2019

Brazil has a Huge Past Ahead

Bronze cast and silver nitrate patina
34 x 39 x 1 cm
2019

OSPB
Wood, concrete, rope and books

122 x 80 x 52 cm

2019

The Dispute over the Signs
Oxidized cast iron

43 x 40 x 14 cm
2019

Foundations of Design Substance:
Cultural Metaphors for Designing a New Future

Solo show
2015

Installation views OCA Ibirapuera

City Museum of São Paulo

The End of Work

Video Installation in 3 channels
HD video, sound, color

20'30″
2019

Commissioned by Beyond Archive project (CareOf, Milan)
with support from the ORA! program

Foundations of Design Substance:
Cultural Metaphors for Designing a New Future

Solo show
2015

Installation views OCA Ibirapuera

City Museum of São Paulo

Foundations of Design Substance:
Cultural Metaphors for Designing a New Future

Solo show
2015

Installation views OCA Ibirapuera

City Museum of São Paulo

Projections (Plans in Progression) series

Technical instruments, tools, gauges, kapok plywood, BR Petrobras Gray enamel, oil paint
Diverse dimensions
2015

From Abstract Orders to Material Progress II

Cinder blocks, fabric flag, oil paint, bitumem, copper, wood, stainless steel, cotton cord. Brass plaque engraved in bass relief with automotive painting
Sculpture  42 x 100 x 235 cm 
Brass plaqu
e 60 x 80 cm
2010-2013

Phantom Matrix (Old Structures, New Glories)

Sugar cane wooden mill, electric motor, old metal parts, sound system 
900 x 600 cm
2016

Installation view SITU Project, Leme gallery

Remediations

Video, TV, dvd player, furniture, ceramic and concret blocks, plexiglass, plywood, printed matter, paint over inkjet prints
28m2 

2010-2014

Installation view Temporada de Projetos

Paço das Artes São Paulo

Functional Park
Solo show and public internvention
2015

Installation views Marquise Funarte Brasília

Anti Ego Device

Movement sensor, eletric motor, plexiglass, metal parts, wires

58 cm diam.
2006-2017

It's all Allegory

Chemo-engraving in bas relief, brass, black automotive paint

56 x 64 x 3 cm 

2015

Dirty Abstractions series

Screen printing on fabric, MDF, concrete relief
concrete slab 62 x 62 x 6 cm
screen printing 56 x 38 cm
2015

Precarious forms in an unstable arrangement
(the Reverse of Symbols: Value / Time / Representation)

Carbon steel, kapok plywood, silicone rubber, automotive paint, 20 cruise coin cents (1977) 
87.5 x 80 x 70 cm

2015

Reaches and Limits (from Abstract Orders
to Territorial Exploration)

Laser-cut stainless steel, rusty iron, aluminum, electrostatic painting, wood (partially burned), brass plate engraved inbas relief, automotive paint
Brass plate 60×80 cm

Sculpture 117 x 120x 90 cm
2015

Peace in the Jungle (Dark Matter series)

Oil painting intervention on paper – map and pages from old magazines
87,5 x 173 cm 
2013 - 2015

El Museo Impossible de las Cosas Vivas - Departamento de Integración Pan Continental (area de contacto triangular)

Security light, rocks, fabric, metal, glass, plastic, brass, ink jet photo print, wood, cotton strings
Variable dimensions
2014

Installation view PARC Lima

Brasilia Broadcast II

Wooden flagpole, sound archive, loudspeaker, mp3 player, electric power, steel wire, metal structure, bricks, stones and tools
Variable dimensions
2006-2015

Installation view 37th Panorama of Brazilian Art

Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo

Tripartite Reunited

Die-cast aluminum, acrylic plate, rubber tubular frame, automotive paint, resin, printed graphic image mounted on methacrylate
Sculpture 94 x 63 x 57 cm
Wooden base 60 x 60 x 90 cm
Methacrylate 80 x 80 cm

2009-2013

Installation view 33rd Panorama of Brazilian Art
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo

Foundations of Design Substance:
Cultural Metaphors for Designing a New Future

Solo show
2015

Installation views OCA Ibirapuera

City Museum of São Paulo

Foundations of Design Substance:
Cultural Metaphors for Designing a New Future

Solo show
2015

Installation views OCA Ibirapuera

City Museum of São Paulo

Foundations of Design Substance:
Cultural Metaphors for Designing a New Future

Solo show
2015

Installation views OCA Ibirapuera

City Museum of São Paulo

The Life of the Centers

Photobook 152 p. Color / B&W, ISBN 9788562114229
Inkjet print mounted on dibond, wall installation with 42 photo-text pieces (book spreads). 
180 x 900 cm
2011-2013

 

Installation view Paço Imperial
IPHAN Rio de Janeiro

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Tomorrow I will Remember Nothing

Solo show

2019

Installation views Luisa Strina gallery 

Conservative Punitive Abstract Schemes (series)
Laser-cut acrylic and rotogravure by Di Cavalcanti  
40 x 50 x 4 cm
2018

No fear of the raw (or), how to reverse one’s own gaze. Performed notes on the phantoms of wealth

Lecture performance

2018

Presented at Live Works / Supercontinent
performance award Centrale FIES 

IPO (Aesthetic Unity, Economic Distribution)

Mural painting composed of geometric-abstract pattern based on the Petrobras BR oil distributer logo
Variable dimensions
2017

Installation view 37th Panorama of Brazilian Art

Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo

Tomorrow I will Remember Nothing

Solo show

2019

Installation views Luisa Strina gallery 

Poison and Value (a Silent Catastrophe)
Insect trap, plastic parts, electric cables, aluminum, led lights, steel cable, sound track
Variable dimensions
2021

Installation view Dresden Kunstverein

Natrural Capital

Black earth, irrigation system and seeds of agricultural, organic, pioneer, ornamental and original plants. Collaboration and supervision Ana Kamitusji.
63,9 m2
2024

Installation views Uncertain Heritage solo show
Capela do Morumbi - Museu da Cidade de São Paulo

Future Expectations I

Roasted coffee beans, pebbles, coins, cowrie shells, dentures.
Variable dimensions.
2024

Installation views Uncertain Heritage solo show
Capela do Morumbi - Museu da Cidade de São Paulo

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