Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro

Souls are memories. Memories are not discovered; memories are created in the everyday act of wanting not to forget.

– Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro

Artist, writer, and psychologist Vitorino Brasiliero is an artist whose work transcends from a double dimension: Healing in the existential and bodily fields and the reterritorialization of the body and the spaces in which it circulates and inhabits. Her pieces are articulated between performance, video, photography, installation, situation, and pictorial practices, moving in an open spectrum that encompasses traditions common to fields including art, healing, encounter, macumba, and other psychic-spiritual activities. Her image-ideas, magnetic and stunning, bring high energy intensity, causing cognitive shifts that dilute dichotomies between culture and nature, and discredit the structures that racialize and hijack the fluidity of experiences. Her actions give names to traumas so they can finally take their course. 

Interweaving a diversity of knowledges, her work suggests transformations and twists of all kinds. And, from these practices, movements and singular rituals emerge, mobilized by the astuteness of the tongue, the swing of the waist, and the care of the soul. From its elementary inventiveness for bodies and esoteric trances, actions, and elements vibrate in this plane and others.  

– Germano Dushá 

Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro (b. 1996, Vitória, Brazil) lives and works on Planet Earth.

Recent solo exhibitions include Eterno Vulnerável, Solar dos Abacaxis, Rio de Janeiro (2025); A linguagem dos Anjos, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels (2024); Remember when we talked about meeting again, Mendes Wood DM, New York (2022); O Trauma é brasileiro, Galeria Homero Massena, Vitória (2019). Additionally, recent group exhibitions include Ancestral Futures, Église des Trinitaires, Arles (2025); Choreographies of the Impossible, 35th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo (2023); Third World: The Bottom Dimension, Serpentine Gallery, London (2023); Social Fabric: Art and Activism in Contemporary Brazil, Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas, Austin (2022); 4+3=1, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin (2022); Atos Modernos, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, São Paulo (2022); Eclipse, Hessel Museum of Art, New York (2021); Crônicas Cariocas, Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro (2021); La pisada del ñandú (o cómo transformamos los silencios), La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona (2021); Enciclopédia Negra, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, São Paulo (2021); 11th Berlin Biennial of Contemporary Art, Berlin (2020). 