Haroldo Sabóia

Haroldo Saboia, "Oráculo Popular", photographs from the exhibition at Publica, SP. 2019. Photo: Mayra Azzi. Courtesy of the artist.

Haroldo Saboia (1985) is a visual artist, researcher, photographer and filmmaker from Ceará. His artistic research focuses on the ideas of relationship, alterity and memory. He has a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from the Subjectivity Center at PUC-SP, where he researched fictional memory strategies to think about the relationship between whitening and notions of mestizaje. She is currently working on interdisciplinary projects involving cinema, music, visual arts and dance, elaborating issues between orality, music and spirituality.

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