Jardim Suspenso (Hanging Garden) is a public one-day festival where musicians and young artists gather to showcase their work in the natural landscape of a lesser urbanized part of the favela Babilônia, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event kicks off with a debate where public and invited speakers discuss socio-political issues that concern favela / city-related problems. Art installations create the environment for musical concerts of diverse genres, making for an eclectic and festive evening. Since its V edition (2016) we organize an artist residency so that selected artists will develop their projects for the show within the area and alongside the resident community.
Jardim Suspenso 2015
Favela Morro da Babilônia
Personal Works:
Work shown in the V Jardim Suspenso Art Exhibit, November 2016. A relational piece deriving from my research with mattresses; the creation of an intimate space amidst the open air art show.
Sugarcane shack, 2012
2nd edition of Jardim Suspenso in Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro
Work presented in the II Jardim Suspenso Art Exhibit. I was working with sugarcane at the time, one of the pillars of crops in Brasil and likewise, of slavery. This cozy ‘nest’, with tacky cushions faking ostentation, refers sarcastically to the comfort with which Brazilian society belittles its social impact up to date.
Minha casa me abriga, 2014
3rd edition of Jardim Suspenso, at Morro da Babilônia
Work shown at the III Jardim Suspenso Art Exhibit. Its title refers to a motto of the housing movement in Rio: “Minha casa me abriga/ Minha casa, minha briga” (My house shelters me/My house, my fight), which itself is a reference to the government project “Minha Casa, Minha Vida” (My House, My Life), where inhabitants of certain ‘undesirable’ impoverished areas are displaced to neighborhoods farther away from the center and out of site of the people whom they bother. This was the first time we promoted the show in a favela, and since the area we used is a forest zone with extremely precarious resources where its inhabitants have suffered several government attempts of displacement within the community, this project is a vindication of the right to choose where one lives, where one feels indeed ‘at home’.