Desali

Born in 1983, Warley Desali was, during his adolescence, part of the groups of graffiti artists in Nacional, a neighborhood in the city of Contagem. That marked the entry point into his art, shaped by comics workshops, graffiti, and later his training in Plastic Arts and Art Education at the Guignard School in Belo Horizonte. With the collective “Entre Aspas” (In Quotes), he deepened his work in urban intervention by using found objects in the streets and other locations and adhering them to street posters and graffiti. His work is grounded in the quest to promote contact with the other and in the latter’s participation, whether through workshops, performances or unexpected interactions – as when it fosters bringing together the clientele of a neighborhood bar in the periphery with painting, like for example, in the series Tratar diretamente com o proprietário (Dealing Directly with the Owner, 2015). Nominated for the Pipa Prize in 2017, 2018 and 2019, Desali reacted to such attention with humor and self-irony.