Gê Viana

Gê Viana produces collages, photomontages, and paintings that move between the historical archive and the pulse of the streets. Her practice is shaped by Afropindoramic identity and the liturgies of Maranhão, using the appropriation of colonial records as a gesture of subversion and as a reprogramming of the social imaginary. The artist describes her ancestral connections as "branches of time," organizing compositions in which past and present overlap in spiraling temporalities. Nourished by popular rituals and communal experiences, Viana juxtaposes spirituality and historical critique, establishing an imagistic battlefield in which new energies are impressed onto the marks of colonization. Beyond shedding light on historical oppressions, her work proposes the creation of images capable of transforming worldviews, celebrating the vitality of forms of life and opening new and energizing paths.

Her solo exhibitions include "36ª Bienal de São Paulo: Nem todo viandante anda estradas – Da humanidade como prática" (2025, São Paulo); "Atos de revolta: imaginando outra história" (2022, Palacete Princesa Isabel, Santa Cruz); "Retirar o sol das cabeças, uma reza das imagens" (2022, Galeria Superfície, São Paulo); and "Paridade" (2022, Galeria de Arte do Sesc, São Luís). She has participated in group exhibitions and other projects, including "Atos de revolta: outros imaginários sobre independência" (MAM-Rio, 2022); "Necrobrasiliana" (Galeria Vicente do Rêgo Monteiro, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, 2022); "Histórias brasileiras" (MASP, São Paulo, 2022); "Necrobrasiliana" (Museu Paranaense [MUPA], Curitiba, 2022); "Frestas Triennial of Arts—O Rio é uma serpente" (Sesc Sorocaba, 2021); "PhotoIreland Festival" (Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, 2020); and "36º Panorama da Arte Brasileira: Sertão" (MAM-SP, São Paulo, 2019). She won the PIPA Prize in 2020.