LATEXO DA ORIXE

2026

Mixed media on canvas.

Gold leaf, charcoal and oil paint.

150 x 110cm.

In this work, the body does not represent a tradition: it embodies it.

The veiled face suspends individual identity, awakening a memory that precedes the self. The gesture — restrained yet decisive — does not describe music; it brings presence into being.

The strike is not merely rhythm. It is affirmation. It is the moment when the ancestral passes through matter and becomes action. The fragmented golden surface, suspended over the figure, does not function as ornament, but as a plane of consecration: a space where collective memory assumes a symbolic dimension.