The ongoing concerns in his work and research acknowledge the changing nature of contemporary art, and issues of situated practice, location, and context. He has exhibited nationally and internationally in conventional art spaces in gallery and museum structure and beyond. These works are understood and perceived under controlled perceptual conditions. Other strategies for action include contextual art initiatives with marginal communities that create spaces for urban intervention for agency and self-organization. This work frequently operates within states of contingency and indeterminacy where the dimensions of art acknowledge the local context within its economic, political, social, and historical arena. The work brings together different methods and platforms of collaborative practice with urban actors engaged in the social production of space. Frequently these strategies use informal kinds of knowledge and exchange of know-how and making-do tactics to negotiate everyday urban living.
Collaborating with residents, activists, non-government organizations and researchers the work palpates how we position ourselves in the world. These are spatial questions. Space is something we produce rather than it being empty, a void we fill with objects / artefacts and architecture. Space is physical, material, linguistic, conceptual, perceptual, ephemeral, nomadic and fluid.
He has worked with residents in a favella in Sao Paulo whose milieu operate within informal economy and architecture. Together they built a Nomadic Kitchen where urban negotiations are made while cooking and eating in this ephemeral structure.
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His strategy could be described as post-studio practice. Choosing an economy of means his minimal aesthetic works with the situation at hand and the appropriation of systems and methods used to represent concepts and ideas. He painted a gallery white. Uses photography and text that explores how we construct meaning through arbitrary associations of signifiers. Or acts of withdrawal, sandblast text from a glass window in the art college where he worked, provoking questions of how representation of ideas in real time is an impossible challenge.
Current work explores the brain not only as the engine that drives our desires but as the object of the artwork through the creative imagination. Working collaboratively with neurologists, scientists and persons living with cognitive impairment, transfer their (EEG) into a stained-glass window and installed to their living room. To create a space where the owner of their brain circuitry sees their thought return through the cosmic rays of the weather, creating transformative spaces that stimulate the senses for one’s milieu and wellbeing.
