Chancko Karann (1989) has lived in Salvador since 2006. He is a visual artist and researcher, a PhD candidate in PPAGAV/UFBA and holds a master’s degree in visual arts (2020) from the same institution. His work reflects on the pathways of movement in abstract composition, especially within the fields of expanded printmaking and painting, developing a discourse related to gestural existences and their unfolding in the construction of artistic practice. He participated in the 65th Salão de Artes Visuais da Bahia (2024) and in the exhibitions bLast (2024), NOVAMATRIZ (2022), ABSTRATO/ABSTRAÇÕES (2021), Nós que aqui estamos, por vós esperamos (2018), 3ª Mostra Gráfica (2017), and Ocupação do Beco (2021), among others.

O que cresce se arrasta (2024) dialogues with the artist’s interest in the presence of objects. The mass of glass presented in the work is an abstract possibility of movement that converses with the way Karann positions himself in the world: through an unusual pattern of walking, seeking ways to slip through spaces in somewhat erratic steps; a body that at times startles, seeming like an unknown organism, or one that comes to know itself as it advances. Being at once liquid, viscous, and stone, the work exists within this difference—like the bodies that once dragged themselves in search of a way to stand up. Despite the fragility of the metallic sheets that merge in its formation, the body presents itself as something strong and dense.

The sculpture was exhibited in the solo show Em estranhas semelhanças, Galeria cozinha, FABAUP, Porto, and in the 65th Salão de Artes Visuais da Bahia, Cachoeira (2024).