About
Daniel Jorge (Recreio, 1991) is a Brazilian visual artist and sculptor.
At the crossroads of utopia and pragmatism, Daniel's work addresses the relationship between space, time, weight, body and proportion from a peripheral and diasporic perspective. Altogether revealing matter and essential materials in the imagination of civilization and domain of afrodiasporic peoples, building new identity images from belonging and a sense of place.
Process of studies and development of sculptures that arise from the knowledge of African settlements, ibás and odus. The artist seeks the soap stone that comes from his home state of minas gerais, southeastern region of brazil, to portray and dialogue directly with his identity, making a parallel between its roots and its status quo. Revealing the movement, the matter, the body, the sphere, the feminine, the masculine and all the potencies that inhabit the spiritual body.
Daniel elaborates and produces tangible sculptures from fractal geometry and movements, exploring the fields of photography, poetry, light and shadow installations and performance.
The works present his compositions of materiality: stone, clay, and ore as fundamental materials to discuss the cosmovision of black bodies.
