Les Têtes de Saint Denis

Les Têtes de Saint Denis

Les Têtes de Saint Denis

Les Têtes de Saint Denis

In this project one can see human scale images of people that resemble the Saint Denis city inhabitants, however, these images hold their heads in their hands. It's an allusion to the city's foundation myth, according to which Saint Denis had his head cut in Montmartre, but instead of just dying, he stood up, grabbed his head and walked until the place where the Saint-Denis' cathedral was later built - right in the center of the city in question.
Knowing that most of the inhabitants of Saint Denis nowadays are immigrants, especially from Africa, and the symbolic importance of this myth to France's origins (many kings of this country were buried in the cathedral mentioned), this project induces a critical reflection about the integration/non-integration process of different foreingers culture in France, or Europe.

Berlin's Philosophers

Boa sorte, leitores, tentando adivinhar quem era para ser quem nesse trabalho.

Berlin's Philosophers

Berlin's Philosophers

The idea was to make paintings of drunk philosophers in this place dominated by graffitis in Friedrischain , Berlin. It's a point already known for the graffitis and the clubs that took over the abandoned buildings, and it's just beside a huge avenue.
However, it was quite different to paint in the snow with -6 to -10 as temperature. Not only it's damn cold and we (me and the photographer) couldn't stay for long, but the spray paint didn't attach itself so well over the wall, and the acrylic was just bizarre as everything was wet already. So I just had to quit doing realistic forms, and they're more drunk figures than the images of the philosophers I wanted.
I was thinking of working longer, imagining that the work was far from good when a man came by and asked me if I was the painting's author. Embarrassed I said yes, and then I was surprised when he pointed to the less finished picture and said: I loved this! I want you to make this inside my club!
After that I decided that I could use the different style, and then I realized it was actually much better than my original plan anyway. I ended up doing a expressionist work in Germany, how not to enjoy such oportunity?

ps: Unhappily I didn't have the time to do the paintings in the club as I left the city, but I got free invitations to a party there and used it wisely. The club's name is " Suicide Circus", what made me think about the state of my paintings...