Septembre 2026 à Mars 2027
La résidence de Rafael DA SILVA s'inscrit dans le cadre de la Chaire Arts, sociétés et mutations contemporaines.
Rafael Segatto Barboza da Silva lives and works across different coastal territories. A visual artist and researcher, his practice is rooted in aquatic ecosystems and territories shaped by the tides. His work explores the spaces where land and water meet, estuaries, coastal geologies, cosmologies, and coastal ways of life.
(Photo credit: Felipe Amarelo)
Maretório: Observations in the Loire Estuary
This artistic research project explores the concept of Maretório through a transatlantic shift from the coastal regions of Brazil to the Loire. The estuary is approached as a living and relational territory, where water, human and non-human ways of life, infrastructures, the memory of the triangular trade, and contemporary issues intersect, producing specific forms of occupation, memory, and relationships with water.
During his residency, he will develop an “archive-process”, conceived both as a research tool and as an extension of his artistic practice. Rather than constituting a completed or conclusive body of work, it is understood as a living and evolving system capable of bringing together field experience, material observation, and critical reflection on the relationships between water, territory, and circulation.
*A term developed in the coastal territories of Brazil to describe ways of life and flows governed by the tides.
Exhibitions
- Um rio não existe sozinho, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Museu Goeldi, Belém (PA), Brazil (group exhibition)
- Ocupação Milton Santos, Galpão Bela Maré, Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil (group exhibition)
- Linha-Mar, Museu do Pescador, Vitória (ES), Brazil (solo exhibition)
- Sete Caminhos: do MAES ao Quintal Bantu, Museu de Arte do Espírito Santo (MAES), Vitória (ES), Brazil (group exhibition)
- paciência de pescador, Museu Capixaba do Negro “Verônica da Pas” (Mucane), Vitória (ES), Brazil (solo exhibition)
- caminhos possíveis, Galeria Homero Massena, Vitória (ES), Brazil (solo exhibition)
Bibliography
SILVA, Rafael Segatto Barboza da. Linha-Mar. Vitória (ES), Brazil, 2025. ISBN 978-65-01-30269-0.
SILVA, Rafael Segatto Barboza da. [et al.]. Sete Caminhos: do MAES ao Quintal Bantu. Vitória (ES), Brazil, 2022.
SILVA, Rafael Segatto Barboza da. caminhos possíveis. Vitória (ES), Brazil, 2018.
Videography
Linha-Mar. Directed by Renata Segatto Barboza da Silva, 32 min 50 sec.
Sete Caminhos: do MAES ao Quintal Bantu. Directed by Felipe Amarelo, 8 min 28 sec.
