TIAGO CAMPOS
Tiago lives in São Paulo and seeks to address social, political, and economic issues in his work.
The discovery of dyslexia occurred in adulthood and brought an understanding of lifelong questions and behaviors, especially in relation to the creative process.
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2021
HE USED TO SMILE!
Visual artist Tiago Campos never imagined he was dyslexic. Only later did he pay more attention to some characteristics that had always accompanied him. His images delve into various aspects of society. “Explosive Artifact,” made on a repurposed support and framed, refers to the prejudice suffered by Rafael Braga, a Black homeless man, arrested for carrying a bottle containing disinfectant under the accusation that he would use the liquid to produce explosive materials. “Smile!” satirizes the constant surveillance to which we are subjected, losing privacy both physically, through images, and through data tracking on social networks. “Ballooning” focuses, with beauty and subtlety, on the feeling of a lack of national future, with the symbolic image of a balloon floating adrift in an empty landscape, unable to imagine what its future might be.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio
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VISUAL ARTS
2022
Orange-breasted Thrush
The delicacy of nature emerges in this work as an affirmation of how apparent simplicity itself holds enormous depth. Representing a living being is always an exercise in humility, because it demands self-knowledge in order to deepen the dialogue between emotion, technique, and creativity to achieve the desired effect.
Painting a bird means not only understanding its mechanics, but also delving into the ways it relates to space. The whole gains strength when there is this visual reasoning that leads to a dialogue between what is chosen to be painted and what surrounds it.
This leads to a strengthening of art as a form of plastic intelligence that unveils the world.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio
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VISUAL ARTS
2023
FEDERAL IMMUNIZATION PLAN: BRAZIL IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
The painting offers a silent yet powerful critique of the federal government's lack of commitment to promoting the benefits of vaccination during the Covid-19 pandemic. The use of a gray-dominated palette creates an atmosphere characterized by feelings of sorrow and mourning. The broken bottle emphasizes the idea that lives were lost in this process – and that these lives will never be recovered, both physically and psychologically.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio
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VISUAL ARTS
2024
UNTITLED
The image of a female figure looking at her cell phone constitutes a portrait of contemporary society, in which connections between people are increasingly made through virtual means. It's not about making value judgments, that is, establishing whether this is better or worse than in the past, but about perceiving how virtual communication generates a surge of relationships that, for example, makes us rethink physical and emotional geography. It allows, for example, a wider heterogeneity of contacts. At the same time, it fragments dialogues and can truncate conversations, generating a feeling of living in an immense void in internal relationships and with others.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio
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VISUAL ARTS
2025
NOT EVERYTHING GOES RIGHT
The balloon functions as a symbol of ascension. It indicates the possibility that each person has to rise into space, expanding their qualities and being able to observe the whole from a different perspective. Being in it or seeing its flight is also a way to sublimate the desire that each one has to rise into space, alone or accompanied, depending on the situation.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio
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VISUAL ARTS
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TIAGO
My dyslexia is a comorbidity of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Although it has always been with me, I only became aware of this comorbidity as an adult, which led to a better understanding of many questions and behaviors, especially regarding artistic creation processes.
Within the arts, my productions have always sought to address social, economic, and political issues, especially regarding racism and other forms of discrimination, with most of the works created using painting techniques and some forms of street art such as graffiti and stenciling.
I believe that both dyslexia and ASD directly influence my work; however, whether this is a good or bad thing, I may never know.
