Rian Fontenele (1977) is a visual artist and currently serves as the general and artistic director of the Pinacoteca do Ceará. Trained as an architect, he has devoted himself entirely to the visual arts for more than two decades, with works held in public and private collections. His artistic practice spans painting, drawing, woodcut, embroidery, and poetry, with the word serving as a central path of investigation across his languages.

O Inaudito Sacra a Minha Carne (2022) is a graphite drawing on paper and part of the series Poemetos de Memória e Sal, Sopro e Lume. About the work, the artist writes:

“What clothes us?
—Memory, skin, desire, absence, silence, commotion, verb?
You, dressed in yourself.
We are this (these many) subcutaneous. Situated beneath the skin.
In the depth of this body: head, torso, limbs, and jaw.
A body in gesture and movement.

Nudity as the presence of being with oneself, immersed in the tumultuous silence of the commotion of being with all that is ours insides.

Life itself (breath), passion (flame), the memory, and the essence of the experience (salt) are the narrators that describe the astonishment of existing and relating.”

The artist narrates through visual poems the drawing record of the complexities of the human condition: the astonishment and displacement of relationships, the intrinsic solitude, and the festivity of collective existence.