Cássio Markowski

Through a collaborative and multidisciplinary practice, this workshop explored the possibilities of photography and drawing as creative and imaginative mediums for the (re)discovery of place and community by informing the gaze and memory. A laboratory space was created, and neighbourhood walks were undertaken to collect images and information that served as material and starting points for experiments conducted by the participants. Engaging in a range of digital and analogue processes, the workshop worked with individual and collective memory to produce a final outcome materialized in one composition created through cut-out drawings, resulting in a sense of three-dimensionality.

BIO

Brazilian artist Cássio Markowski works primarily between drawing and painting, while also exploring video and installation as means of expanding his practice. The artist's production encompasses a process of documenting various socio-cultural aspects of Afro-Brazilian history and the African diaspora. This approach is based on continuous research in archives, the internet, family albums, and image databases. This visual universe, simultaneously autobiographical and fictional, political and poetic, merges the artist's personal memories with collective experiences and traumas, creating a realm where the dreamlike relationship between humans, fauna, and flora prevails, referencing resignification and healing.