AGAIZER
Mi Pereira - Agaizer is a visual artist who currently lives in Divinópolis/MG. She discovered she had dyslexia at age 19, and with professional support, she was able to transform her learning disability into a gift, perceiving dyslexia as part of her identity, something that gives her shape. Through art, she expresses her pain, anguish, love, and joy.
@AGAIZER
2021
CENSORSHIP
The image of a figure with hands covering its eyes, mouth, and chest, but with hair composed of flowers, constitutes a visual representation of how a person with dyslexia might feel in the world. "Censorship" refers to the fact that being dyslexic is often seen as a way of being and thinking differently, frequently preventing one from performing actions or tasks that, for most, may seem simple and everyday. Even in a universe of negations, there is the capacity to build and develop a world of possibilities – and art plays an essential role in this journey. Faced with limitations and barriers, Mi (Agaizer) Pereira, who "discovered" her dyslexia upon entering university, was unable to write for years. Constant criticism for her spelling mistakes led to a writer's block. Her psychologist was responsible for indicating that she could express herself through painting, removing the hands that censored her and allowing the ideas in her brain to multiply.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio
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VISUAL ARTS
2022
WOMEN WITHIN ME
"Women in Me" is part of the "Synesthesia" project, in which the artist paints the colors that music and sounds suggest to her.
This relationship between distinct meanings gives his work broader connotations, characterized by a constant search in his
The work involves speaking about oneself and the world. This establishes a diversity of artistic interpretations stemming from internal anxieties and a search for completeness.
Each creation leads the observer to a journey of self-discovery, seeking a deeper reflection on the meaning of their own existence, the community to which they belong, and the universe as a whole.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio
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VISUAL ARTS
2023
HOME
The image deals with several archetypal elements associated with motherhood. The breasts and uterus are linked to organic aspects of the tree of life, the so-called "axis mundi," the axis of the world that creates links between the depths of the earth, the trunk, and the branches that spread across the sky. Analogously, the image generates reflections on the meanings of the feminine and its links with the body, as the dwelling place of existence, and with birth and the existential journey of each of us.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio
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VISUAL ARTS
2024
DIVERGENT
Elements such as trees, hearts, and sky are essential in the image. Each evokes symbolic and archetypal aspects that can be integrated into the visual reading of the work. An essential clue lies in remembering how nature presents cycles of birth/life/death full of wisdom and resilience. It connects past, present, and future, as well as the three levels of existence: the earth (roots), the everyday (the trunk), and the sacred (branches that spread upwards, towards the unknown). These issues, associated with the feminine, transform the whole into an act of love for life.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio
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VISUAL ARTS
2025
MASK
The image evokes a dive into the human face, specifically the brain as a space where diverse instances dialogue, such as the life force metaphorically represented by a tree and the heart, traditionally seen as the seat of emotions. All these connotations, among others, point to an understanding of pictorial space as a place where it is possible to propose questions about issues that go beyond neurodivergences because they are existential in their density, as they seek to understand the functioning of the brain. It is a journey through questions that science insists on pursuing and that art presents in expanded inquiries, as occurs in this work.
Oscar D'Ambrosio
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VISUAL ARTS
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AGAIZER
I discovered I had dyslexia at 19 when I asked a Portuguese teacher for help with my writing difficulties. Years later, I received multidisciplinary support, and what was once a difficulty became a gift. Being dyslexic isn't a diagnosis for me; it's an identity, an element that shapes me. For years I had a writing block, and to be able to express myself, my psychologist suggested painting, and since then that has been my way of expressing myself, of placing myself in the world, of being who I am.
