BRAVO POLAR
Bravo is a Brazilian multi-artist and currently lives in Leipzig, Germany. His relationship with dyslexia is one of love and hate, on the one hand all the difficulties that current society imposes on those with dyslexia, on the other, the immense creative capacity and ability to find solutions.
It is through art that he communicates with the public, expresses himself and develops as a person.
@BRAVOPOLAR
2021
BETWEEN WORLDS
One of the most important principles of the project ENTREMUNDOS, by Erick Amarante, it's proportional personal development through art. That includes the concept of inspiring everyone to see the world in different ways, so that each one communicates their own reality. In this context, the artist understands dyslexia as a different way of being in a diverse world by nature. So, it becomes a superpower to face the adversities of the world; and the images created by the artist make the public develop their concerns and provocations about everything that exists. As art is the channel by which Erick Amarante relates himself to everything around him, dyslexia stops being an obstacle that he needs to pass. The discussion is dislocated to overcome this mentality, the education system and the structure of different orders that create barriers to the dyslexics, making their inclusion and participation in society harder.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio
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PHOTOGRAPHY
2022
MISTER Z
A character represented in diverse media, as in a Photographic shoot, video and public performances, Mister Z is a mysterious being that carries an ambiguity of transitions. With a human body and a zebra head, wearing gloves, a tie and supported by a species of cane, that provides him some authority, connection between the profane/telluric world and the divine one.
His pose, sitting and ecstatic, brings out an archetypical memory of authority and control. His hybridism points to a human capacity of leading and controlling, but its own posture indicates a sort of violence, and maybe even an internal uncontrol. Looking at him reminds of the well-known Minotaur, with a human body and the head of a bull. Fruit of a forbidden relationship, it used to feed itself from young people's blood in the labyrinth in which he was locked. Maybe we are, during a part of our journey, this human zebra / zebra human, threatening the others and ourselves. Getting rid of Mister Z, metamorphosing the selfish id of the brain into something kind, free of vanity, is the process of a lifetime.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio
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PERFORMANCE
2024
ABOUT SOCIAL CAMOUFLAGE / WEB / BETWEEN LINES
The poetic proposal by Branco Polar is based on the symbolic meanings of nets/webs from various perspectives, whether as a metaphor for a spider, a landscape, or an animal. The visual journey proposed reflects on a universe of solitudes and gatherings, seeking less perfection and more expressiveness, pondering a world where people often seem to walk in different directions, seeing themselves as individuals rather than as part of a connected collective, instigating internal metamorphoses in each person.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio
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VISUAL ART
2025
I HEARD AN ANGEL
The proposed audiovisual project promotes reflection among various artistic forms, such as image, music, and words. There is a dialogue between the female figure, who evokes the possibility of leaping into the Freedom suggested by space, as well as texts that convey a message that seems to believe in a better future, or at least a cyclical one, in the ebbs and flows of existence, in a constant search for the meaning of life, and in art as a way to find answers to all this. After all, hearing angels may only be possible for those who believe in it. Similarly, art, to flourish and develop, needs to create an audience—that is, to immerse itself in actions that open eyes and ears to what, at first, may seem strange, odd, or different.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio
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VISUAL ARTS
BRAVO
by himself
My relationship with dyslexia is one of love and hate.
I say that there are times when I have dyslexia and there are times when it owns me, and then I am its hostage and I go through all the difficulties that a person with dyslexia goes through in society.
And when I have dyslexia, there are the superpowers it gives me, a different way of seeing the world, a different way of processing information, of finding patterns, of perceiving the world in a different, unique way.
It has an immense creative capacity, a capacity to find solutions, and I'm not just talking about the artistic creativity of concepts, of aesthetics, but also of making my work viable.
Dyslexia also influences my work towards being multimedia.