giants

Slab # 118 (thirst trap)

Concrete, paper and Indian ink, 40 x 40 x 2,5 cm, 2025

Slab # 115 (colossus)

Concrete, paper and Indian ink, 40 x 40 x 2,5 cm, 2025

Slab # 117 (mourning press)

Concrete, paper and Indian ink, 40 x 40 x 2,5 cm, 2025

Slab # 120 (vala comum)

Concrete, paper and Indian ink, 40 x 40 x 2,5 cm, 2025

Slab # 118 (escape to Egypt)

Concrete, paper and Indian ink, 40 x 40 x 2,5 cm, 2025

Slab # 119 (redemption’s march)

Concrete, paper and Indian ink, 40 x 40 x 2,5 cm, 2025

Slab # 116 (gabriel)

Concrete, paper and Indian ink, 69 x 40 x 2,5 cm, 2025

Slab # 121 (apotheosis)

Concrete, paper and Indian ink, 40 x 40 x 2,5 cm, 2025

GIANTS

This series of concrete slabs investigates the concept of ‘body politic’ by taking two historical references and crossing them with contemporary imagery.

The frontispiece of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan is said to bethe inaugural image of biopolitics: the body of the giant, absolute sovereign is formed by a crowd of subjects.

Goya’s Coloso pictures a lost giant – with a crowd of people escaping a catastrophic atmosphere: what tied the king to the people is definitely gone.

I chose here my giants as football players instead of kings: their bodies are revealed to be a crowd (either in war or protest) with their sometimes careful, sometimes desperate, gesture of undressing their shirts. In times of the return of autocrats and the political uncertainty, I pick up players to deviate this image of masculinity and power and present an utopian, but also fragile and queer, desire bonding a multitude and its representants.