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In a visual archaeology that constructs itself through the scarring of the reappropriated image, Maltchique (1979, Pouso Alegre, MG) investigates the chronic ruptures caused by algorithms in the social fabric, which manifest in the flaws inherent to the image transfer process. From this operation emerges a kind of pictorial hallucination, where the image comes to embody itself — remixed, regurgitated, imprinted, or painted onto the support — in sculptural corporification, material complexity, and images charged with symbolism. Thus, the artist creates an algorithmic topography populated by undefined figures, partially recognizable forms, and phantasmagoric bodies, in superpositions of multiple temporalities. The result is the amalgam of a sedimented memory between the flesh and the synthetic that challenges perception and redirects the gaze, evidencing the magical nature and the character of incessant mutation of the image. Between the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional, the artist seeks to articulate a hybrid production between painting and sculpture, involving manual, mechanized, or artificial intelligence-assisted execution.
Resides and works in São Paulo, Brazil.
1997-2003: Bachelors degree in Design,
Universidade Estadual Paulista - Julio de Mesquita Filho,
Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil
2025 35th Bunkyo Contemporary Art Salon (group show), curated by Agnaldo Farias, Jacob Klintowitz, Marianne Aranha. Bunkyo Cultural Space, BR
2025 GOA (group show), organized by Ana Paula Cohen with special participation by Thiago Honório, Centro Cultural Canteiro, BR
2025 Versa 360 (group show), curated by Chico Soll, São Paulo Biennial Pavilion, BR
2025 Abraço coletivo (group show), curated by Paula Borghi, Centro Cultural Canteiro, BR
2024 Os Nomes do Fim (group show), curated by Bruna Fernanda, Lucas Goulart, and Thais Rivitti, Galeria Vermelho, BR
2023 Past & Present - DER GREIF 15th Anniversary (group show), curated by Simon Lovermann and Caroline von Courten, Pinakothek der Moderne, GER
2014 Untitled (group show), curated by Camila D’Anunziata, Centro Cultural RED, BR
2012 CODE +55 ARTE BRASILEIRA AGORA (group show), curated by Mark Saunderson. Fabrik Gallery, CHN
2011 FORÇAS INVISÍVEIS (group show), curated by Ricardo Gaioso, Bela Cintra 2006, BR
Maltchique’s works are part of several private collections in China, Canada, France, Netherlands, and Brazil.