Daniel Albuquerque (1983) lives and works between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Their artistic practice began in 2012, the same year in which they started postgraduate studies in Art and Philosophy at PUC-Rio and courses at EAV Parque Lage. Their solo exhibitions include SCREENS SEX LOVE DEATH (Freddy Biz, Harris, New York, 2023); Fissura//Inquisição (Marli Matsumoto Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo, 2022–2023); Piece of Me (Auroras, São Paulo, 2021); Cômodo (Pivô, São Paulo, 2019–2020); Batom (Galeria Cavalo, Rio de Janeiro, 2018); and Oral (BFA – Boatos Fine Arts, São Paulo, 2017).

They have taken part in numerous group exhibitions, such as O fiar – pontos, nós e cortes (Casa de Cultura do Parque, São Paulo, 2025); Liga pontos (Tropigalpão, Rio de Janeiro, 2023); 36th Panorama da Arte Brasileira (MAM-SP, 2019); The House where you live forever (Garage Rotterdam, 2019); Perdona que no te crea (Carpintaria, Rio de Janeiro, 2019); and A terceira mão (curated by Erika Verzutti, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo, 2017); Choro e lágrimas não têm sotaque (Camden Arts Council, London, 2016); Lastro em campo (SESC Consolação, São Paulo, 2016); Permanências e Destruições (Rio de Janeiro, (2016). Albuquerque holds a master’s degree in social history of culture from PUC-Rio (2021), with a dissertation titled Ivens Machado: desenhos.

Regarding Parallels (2025), Albuquerque explains that they were born in January and that, as a child, they heard that month’s name came from Janus, the Roman god that has two opposing faces, one looking to the past and the other to the future. Upon learning this, they wondered, “Does that mean that time is linear?” Believing that it is not—and that our experience of it is even less so—they began developing bifurcated tongues that twist, confront, or miss each other. Parallels is a work about body and time.