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Sabrina Da Silva Medeiros

Having grown up in the far south of São Paulo, surrounded by one of the capital’s largest water reservoirs and set within the Mata Atlântica, Sabrina Da Silva Medeiros lives and composes with the syncretisms of the margins, as well as with the relationships between the living and the non-living. Her interdisciplinary practice reconstructs her memories in the face of Brazil’s colonial erasure.

Through a quest for re-enchantment, she explores the encruzilhadas—crossroads/intersections—while weaving connections through the frictions between ancestral rites, baile funk parties, and maloka (a term used pejoratively to refer to the outskirts or peripheral neighborhoods). By subverting these codes, she re-signifies these spaces and the act of “making home.”

The project brings together painting, printmaking, and ceramics around the notion of encruzilhadas—crossroads/interstices. A series of paintings and engraved cartographic matrices observes and reveals the networks of passages, traces, and bifurcations that structure social and invisible circulations between territories from the South to the North. Ceramic sculptures, inspired by tronqueiras associated with Afro-Brazilian religious practices and placed in dialogue with contemporary archetypes such as the Joker, develop syncretic figures between the living and the non-living in order to weave new forms of dialogue.