Uiler Costa-Santos (1983) is a visual artist and educator. Through photography and the study of images, his research proposes a dialogue between the imaginary of landscape and the politics of redistributing the sensible through abstraction. His production takes the image as an aesthetic vehicle, using it as an instrument that offers the body different perceptual experiences departing from everyday spaces, returning to it new possibilities of political and geographic imagination. Since 2017, he has been dedicated to the series Sizígia, a research project developed through aerial photographs of the Itaparica Channel.

He has presented solo exhibitions such as Cosmologia da maré baixa (Galeria Babel, São Paulo, 2022) and Coroas (Museu de Arte da Bahia, 2022). Among its groups shows, a highlight is his participation in the Biennale de la Photographie Africaine – Rencontres de Bamako (2022–2023). He has also taught photography since 2015, is an ambassador for Canson Infinity, and is represented by Paulo Darzé Galeria (Brazil) and São Mamede (Portugal).

Untitled (2020) is part of the Coroas chapter of the Sizígia project. The artist proposes an encounter between technique and poetics through aerial photographs taken over the Baía de Todos-os-Santos. The abstraction of the landscape reveals the presence of a sophisticated fishing technology, the “pesqueiros”, crafted by local workers based on the observation of the tides and on ancestral knowledges. The wooden circles are structured through the dialogue with the ebb and flow of the sea, allowing for the possibility of understanding fishing not as an act of exploration and extraction of natural resources, but as a form of relationship, contact and communication between humans and non-humans.

For Brazilian philosopher Milton Santos, technologies are instrumental means through which life unfolds. In Coroas, Costa-Santos seeks to intensify, through imagination, the interplay of movements that the sea offers to human practices when these two forms of life meet. For him, the “pesqueiros” allow us to imagine ways out of the impasses posed by the Anthropocene, through ancestral and contemporary ways of knowing, dwelling, and existing.