The sparkle in your eyes holds all the time in the world with Rafael RG in collaboration with MIR Estúdio

Rafael RG (1986) Lives and works between Guarulhos (SP), São Luís do Maranhão (MA) and Recife (PE). He has a degree in Visual Arts from Belas Artes de São Paulo. (PROUNI Scholarship – 2010). He participated in exhibitions and festivals in cities in Brazil and other countries. He received, among other awards, the 1st Foco ArtRio Prize, the Honor Award for Art and Heritage Merit/IPHAN, the Acquisition Prize from Centro Cultural São Paulo, Iberê Camargo Scholarship for residency at the Künstlerhaus Bremen (Germany), Pampulha Scholarship for residency at the Museum de Arte da Pampulha (MG), among his recent residencies are Gasworks in London (2018), Black Rock Senegal in Dakar (2019), Triangle France – Astérides in Marseile (2020) and YBYTU (2021) and FAAP artistic residency (2022) both in São Paulo, The 55 project, Miami (2022) and Palais do Tokyo in Paris (2023).

In his artistic practice, RG usually uses two sources to construct his works: one documentary and the other affective, generally through the use of documents collected from institutional or personal archives associated with narratives that may involve him or an alter ego. The interaction between these territorialities results in works that almost always come close to fiction, or a tense notion of fictionality. Affective and sexual relationships and their political implications, and issues of racial identity have been his current areas of interest. This research generally unfolds into workshops, installations, performative texts, publications and objects.

THE MIR MIR is a studio specialized in creating experiences through technology. Headed by Brayhan Hawryliszyn, Breno Barreto and Yonanda Santos from Minas Gerais, the studio develops immersive environments, interactive installations, video mapping and all types of actions that integrate art, design and technology. Founded in 2012, MIR has already created works such as Cobra Arco Íris/ Bo'eda Pirõ in partnership with Daiara Tukano, Abissal, Drusa and Infinito Perpétuo. It has also developed exhibitions such as 50 anos em 5 atos, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Palácio das Artes and was part of the design of cultural facilities such as the Usiminas Memory Center in Ipatinga and the Museu da Gruta do Maquiné in Cordisburgo.