A Visual Journal: Rio de Janeiro and Brasília

In 2025, I traveled through Rio de Janeiro and Brasília with the goal of better understanding Brazil through its art, architecture, institutions, and everyday life. During my visit, I explored museums, university campuses, galleries, public art, and design studios, including the Banco do Brasil Cultural Center, where I spent time with exhibitions by Brazilian artists working across painting, sculpture, installation, and contemporary media. I also had the opportunity to visit one of Brazil's leading design studios, whose work has reached international clients, including Tim Hortons. Beyond the galleries, I walked historic neighborhoods, visited the National Congress, experienced the monumental architecture of Oscar Niemeyer, and spent time observing how history, public space, and culture intersect in daily life. Throughout the journey, I documented my experience on 35mm film, creating a black-and-white photographic body of work that will be presented in 2027. I look forward to sharing Brazil through that lens, one shaped by observation, memory, and the quiet moments that often go unnoticed.

This collection is an ongoing visual journal of that experience. These photographs document more than the places I visited. They reflect the questions I carried with me and the ones I brought home about creativity, public memory, civic identity, and the role of artists in helping us understand the societies we build. Every museum, conversation, exhibition, and street became part of the research that continues to inform my studio practice and the work I create today.