Paulo Nazareth

Few artists undertake such radical acts of bodily displacement as Brazilian Paulo Nazareth, born in 1977. With a bachelor’s degree in Drawing and Engraving from the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), he did wood carving with Bahian folk artist Mestre Orlando. A wandering performance artist, he travels to wherever he can set foot. Paulo Nazareth has made pamphlets since 2005. In them he assenbles works such as Projeto/Coleção, in which he lists a series of disqualifying terms of his Afro-Indian phenotype: drug trafficker, thief, terrorist, bad guy, feeble-minded, etc. The project is printed by publishing platform P. NAZARETH ED./LTDA and may be distributed on the streets, at exhibitions or sold for a low price. One of his best known works is a series of more than a dozen photographs entitled Notícias de América, (2011/2012), the result of a trip in which he walked across all of Latin America to the US to take part in an exhibition. Since 2004 Nazareth has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Brazil and in countries such as Germany, Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Netherlands, Paraguay, Portugal, Qatar, United Kingdom and the United States.