“Que bicho é esse?” A question my parents used to ask me when I showed them things I created when I was a child. They were entities, neither alive nor dead. How to find magical objects from a civilization lost between the past and the future? By creating them.

My work results from an intuitive and experimental process. It originates from a research into composition, scale and a process of collecting and preserving elements as basic building blocks. The impulse, the intention, and the choice (conscious and unconscious) guide the creation and compose the objects and these morphological worlds that I create are my structures of the unconscious. The pieces are mutants, one doesn’t ask a mutant what it is or what it’s for and there is something almost revolutionary in creating something useless.

João dos Bichos