Brendon Reis (Salvador - Bahia, 1996). Self-taught visual artist, lives and works in São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
In his work, Brendon Reis seeks to emphasize blackness, sexuality and intimacy, in addition to the symbolic dilemmas involved in the multiple ways of giving meaning to what is understood as “existence”.
This concept of existence in Brendon's work occurs through the creation of ambivalent constitutive spaces, that is, sometimes common and sometimes surreal, where he delicately explores the concepts of “natural” and “supernatural” to give new textures and different realities to figures - black, queer, dissident narratives. His main media are painting, drawings and sculpture. The themes most present in his research involve subjective and intersubjective contradictions, such as perception and the imaginary, the spectacular and the ordinary, the secret and the enlightened.
Through a dual journey between abstractionism and figurativism, Brendon Reis seeks to create an imaginary that references the symbolism of visible and sentimental things, in addition to the subject' s relationship with space - time, especially to work with themes that are transversal to his experience , some of them being intimacy, melancholy, sexuality, the body, identity, homosexuality and affirmation.