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 Liberdade 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).
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Sun House 1 | Casa do Sol 1, 2024
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Rito de passagem., 2023
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"my faith unapologetic" IX, 2022
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"my faith unapologetic" VI, 2022
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"my faith unapologetic" VII, 2022
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"my faith unapologetic" VIII, 2022
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série A grande onda (The great wave series), 2022
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série A grande onda (The great wave series), 2022
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série A grande onda (The great wave series), 2022
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série my faith unapologetic/ my faith unapologetic series, 2022
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Translate. Learn. Angola. All is about that fear and that love, 2022
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"Sem título" (de série "Mírame, solo mírame"), 2021
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Untitled (from "Me basta mirarte para enamorarme otra vez" series), 2021
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Untitled (from "Me basta mirarte para enamorarme otra vez" series)/ Sem título (da série "Me basta mirarte para enamorarme otra vez"), 2021
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Untitled (from "Me basta mirarte para enamorarme otra vez" series)/ Sem título (da série "Me basta mirarte para enamorarme otra vez"), 2021
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"Sem título" (de série "Mírame, solo mírame"), 2019
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Hibisco (Hibiscus), 2019
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Eco-Lógicas Latinas
Fernando Ticoulat e João Paulo Siqueira Lopes, 2023Hardcover, 232 pagesRead more
Publisher: Act. Editora
ISBN: 978-85-471-0653-9
Dimensions: 21,9 x 31 x 2,3 cm -
Dos Brasis
arte e pensamento negro 2023 Read more -
Quando o sol aqui não mais brilhar: a falência da negritude
Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro, 2022Softcover, 112 pagesRead more
Publisher: N-1 Edições
ISBN: 6586941903
Dimensions: 21 x 1 x 12 cm
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Dos Brasis – Arte e Pensamento Negro
Sonia Gomes, Paulo Nazareth, Antonio Obá, Rosana Paulino, Rubem Valentim, Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro Apr 30, 2024Sesc QuitandinhaRead more
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
03/05 — 27/10 2024 -
Serpentine Park Nights 2023
Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro Nov 8, 2023Serpentine Gallery
London, United Kingdom
15/10 2023 -
35th Bienal de São Paulo – choreographies of the impossible
Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro 06/09 – 10/12 2023Fundação Bienal de São PauloRead more
São Paulo, Brazil
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Third World: The Bottom Dimension
Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro 23/06/2023 – 22/10/2023Serpentine Galleries
London, UK
23/06 – 22/10 2023
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