Josi (1983) spent her childhood in Carbonita, Vale do Jequitinhonha-MG, from where she carries a dusting of pequi and a darkness steeped in prayers. Her works are born from the “quarar” of knowledges that soak and awaken in her hands through the gestures of drawing, weaving, cooking, painting, bleaching, collecting—moving through clays, soils, bean broths, roots, plants, branches, barks, saps, and seeds. The works cultivate personal, family, and collective experiences, weaving ways of inhabiting time and space through the movement of subjectivities.

Her latest exhibitions include Histórias da Ecologia, MASP, São Paulo (2025); the solo shows arrastar chão, juntar imbigos, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2024); and grains of water, drops of earth, Mendes Wood DM, New York (2024). She received the PIPA Prize (2022) and the 8º Prêmio de Artes do Instituto Tomie Ohtake (2022).

Untitled (2025), is part of decantações, fervuras e temperamentos, a series of works on paper that the artist has been developing since 2020, in which images are cultivated within the intimacy of pigment preparations: boilings, decantations, and temperings. Continuing their research on nódias (a variation of “stain”), in this work two figures are spun from the meeting of two plants and a ground: capim-tinta, a plant collected in São Gonçalo in Vale do Jequitinhonha—well known there in stories of cloth dyeing—and embaúba prateada, from Caeté-MG, from where also comes the soil that is part of the composition.