maré de matos (1987) is from the Vale do Rio Doce region and lives and works in São Paulo. A transdisciplinary artist, she holds a degree in visual arts (2009, UEMG), a master’s in literary theory (2020, UFPE), and is currently a PhD candidate at Diversitas (Center for Studies on Diversity, Intolerance, and Conflict, USP).

Her work explores the tension between subjectivity and objectivity and defends the right to emotion of populations removed from the status of humanity. She also speculates on concepts such as border, justice, truth, and dignity, at the crossroads between thought, image, and word. In 2010, she founded bendito ofício, a publishing imprint through which she fosters connections between word, image, education, and life.

In geometry of dissolution (2024), from the series como redesenhar pirâmides, the artist seeks to address the decline of structures of political, legal, and historical domination through intersections between poetic fabulation, political speculation, and pictorial abstraction. Erasing edges, composing with charcoal, and writing with an eraser are visual experiments she proposes to dissolve, flatten, distribute, and decode the form of the pyramid within this work.