1963—Amsterdam, São Paulo

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Célio Braga (b. 1963, Brazil) makes emotionally charged, tactile works that dissolve the boundaries between painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, and textile. Using experimental processes, unconventional materials, and intricate craft techniques, he reconfigures these disciplines into layered, sensorial encounters.

Recurring threads of love, eroticism, physicality, transience, and spirituality run through his practice, intertwining reality with abstraction. Braga draws upon the ritualism of religion and the serial structures of modernism, fusing age-old traditions with contemporary modes of expression.

His creations resist categorisation, inhabiting a space of ambiguity where presence and absence collide. This tension invites a multitude of interpretations, sparking a friction between the corporeal and the intangible.

For Braga, the act of making is inseparable from notions of impermanence, doubt, and transformation—qualities he considers intrinsic to the creation of meaning itself. By uniting diverse

mediums with deeply personal yet universally resonant themes, he open