PV Dias (1994) is an Amazonian artist, born in Pará and based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He studied painting, collage, and other artistic practices at Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage and is currently a PhD candidate in Social Sciences at Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro. Working with historical archives, his research articulates new narratives, critical fabulations, and erasures of histories in a colonized territory. In parallel, he also explores aesthetic questions related to Afro-diasporic and popular musicality across the Americas. His multidisciplinary practice spans painting, photography, video, and digital art.

In 2024, he held his first solo exhibition, Rádios-Cipós, as part of the 33º Programa de Exposições at CCSP (São Paulo). Recent group exhibitions include Bienal da Amazônia (Belém do Pará, 2023); Amazônia Açu (Americas Society, New York); Warmth (One Gee in Fog, Geneva); Salão Arte Pará (Belém); Bloco do Prazer, Funk!, and Casa Carioca (Museu de Arte do Rio); Habito-Habitante (Parque Lage); Pretagonismos at Acervo do Museu Nacional de Belas Artes (BNDES Cultural); and O Espaço Dividido (Goethe Institut Salvador). His works are part of public collections including Coleção Amazoniana (Universidade Federal do Pará), Museu de Arte do Rio (RJ), Coleção de Arte da Cidade de São Paulo (SP), and Museu Nacional de Belas Artes (RJ).

Lagoa das Tretas (2025) was presented in the exhibition Rio de Janeiro XIX–XXI at Casa Museu Eva Klabin (RJ) and Casa Museu Ema Klabin (SP). On that occasion, the artist developed a series of erasures on the album Souvenirs de Rio de Janeiro (1836) by Steinmann, part of Ema Klabin’s collection, as well as on several nineteenth-century Rio landscapes by Rugendas from Eva Klabin’s archive—such as the image used here.

The work is part of the series Disse-me-disse, in which Dias investigates the sounds of revolt and the visual aspects of gossip, interrupting the passive landscape of Rio de Janeiro as depicted by traveling artists.