Interview What was the first art/design/architecture work that impressed you? There are some artworks that have deeply touched me, and I have continued to dialog with them until today. They were produced in different eras and have different styles and meanings; they include Goya’s prints and the paintings from his dark phase, Paul McCarthy’s videos, Ana Mendieta’s poetical interventions, and Marina Abramovic’s radical performances. In the field of architecture, getting to know the city of Brasília was an intense experience of living in a new urban space, which altered my perception of scale. How do you reflect on light as a material or media in your work? I think of light as a medium, the video work I do can only exist because of light. The same thing takes place with the photographs I make, when I open a luminous field over a photograph, or cover a photographic surface with cement to contrast its opacity with the transparency of light. What was the guiding interest in your conceptual approach of your work we see during GLOW? For the video I’m going to show at GLOW, called “Minhocão”, I photographed the façades of buildings beside an elevated roadway in the city of São Paulo, which links two important regions of the metropolis. This expressway has been severely criticized by city planners and architects because it winds through a district with residential buildings, making life more difficult for the inhabitants, and deteriorating the urban environment. The idea of the video is to invert the scale of the city and of the being that lives in it, considering the questions of the body in the cityscape and the human builder as a paradoxical being that vomits the creature. I thereby transform the city’s macro scale into a small landscape and, simultaneously, make the smaller individual unit into a mythological being on an immense scale. In this way, I aim to set up a situation of estrangement in the relationship between the city and the body, inverting the scales. What made it interesting to work in Eindhoven? I think that being in Eindhoven with this work will be an experience involving the transference of a question regarding an overwhelmingly huge city into the context of a city that understands the human scale. I think that there could be a positive exchange of different perceptions and experiences with the two cities that should present similarities and differences. Moreover, I should experience a new context of light and architecture. I’m also interested in perceiving how the video will be inserted within the show in dialog with the other artworks. What kind of respond do you expect from the audience? I hope to present an aesthetic perspective of an urban problem, of a city in a country with social inequalities, giving rise to a reflection that is of interest for everyone. However, fundamentally, I hope that the video opens new readings.