About | Santana Dardot, visual artist

My research currently focuses on investigating — through visual narratives — experiences related to the effects and the presence of the forces of the living world in the living body, that seizes them through the affects, the percepts and the extra-sensorial.

I think that art, through the sensible universe and driven by a latent desire, can be a support to discuss the everyday life, the community and ways of life. To give us conditions to affirm and think about life. To transmit its pulse, to contaminate its surroundings. To dribble our ‘colonized’ unconscious and ‘un-anesthetize’ our decipherer body.

Master in Fine Arts at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 (2021, France).
Graduated in Graphic Design at Escola de Design – UEMG (2001, Brazil).
Lives and works on Earth.

Solo exhibitions

— Para-si | Galeria do Restaurante do Ano (2013, Belo Horizonte, Brazil)

Group exhibitions

— Pratiques Plastiques Contemporaines in situ #4 (2019, Maison pour Tous Albert Camus, Atelline and Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Montpellier, France)

— Corps en jeu (2019, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Montpellier, France)

— Open Studio at Sommerfest 2018 – »Love Is Reality«, in collaboration with Ricardo Portilho (2018, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgard, Germany)

— Artists in Residency Show (2018, Arts Letters & Numbers, Averill Park, NY, USA)

— XI Salão Nacional Victor Meirelles*, organized by Nacasa – coletivo artístico (2017, Florianópolis, Brazil)

— Fórum Mineiro de Tipografia – TipoAssim 2005 (2005, Belo Horizonte, Brazil)

— Tipografia Brasilis, FAAP and ADG (2002, São Paulo, Brazil)

Biennials and festivals

— 14th Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival (2003, São Paulo, Brazil)

— 7th Graphic Design Brazilian Biennial (2004, São Paulo, Brazil)

— 8th Graphic Design Brazilian Biennial (2006, São Paulo, Brazil)

Special collaboration

— Acervo Disseminado – Potes do Sertão (2016, Museu Mineiro, Belo Horizonte, Brazil)

Artist residency

— Arts Letters & Numbers (2018, Averill Park, NY, USA)

Published artworks

— Schloss — Post, Issue No 5 – Histories – An Everyday Practice, Akademie Schloss Solitude (2018, Stuttgard, Germany). Online publication: https://schloss-post.com/category/issues/histories-an-everyday-practice/

— VMALA MTV, MTV Latina (2002, Miami, USA)

— Latino – America Grafica, Die Gestalten (2002, Germany)

— Disorder in Progress, Die Gestalten (2006, Germany)

— Colors Notebook project, Colors, (2006, Italy)

— Lift+ Conference (2007, Switzerland)

— Semipermanent book, DesignisKinky (2006, Australia)

— Tipografia Brasilis (2002, Brazil)

Media coverage

— Para-si, website A pattern a day (2013, Brazil): https://goo.gl/MmEfak

— Para-si, journal O Tempo (2013, Brazil): https://goo.gl/grHo5f