series "Este lugar é aqui" (this place is here)

My artistical and architectonic practice investigates the action of walking while drifting and the usefulness of this action as a way of understanding space. Drifting permits one to experience place, revealing numerous dimensions of the urban landscape that are recognised through the body, in a relation in which subjectivity (and the intersubjectivity) are fundamental. 

From the unfolding of graphic products - after a series of drifts in the neighbourhood of São Cristóvão - understanding their potential to re-interpret some areas recognised during the drifts, resulted the creation of the series “this place is here”, a site-specific intervention consisted in the collage of posters.

Each image is an abstract reference to the place where it was pasted. The purpose of the action is to draw the attention of passersby to some aspect of the landscape that was perceived - and valued - by my gaze from the drift. This intervention seeks to ask people “do you realize what I perceive here?”