CHRISTIANO MERE

Christiano is a Glasgow-based researcher, writer, artist, movement artist, and art technician, originally from Niterói, Rio de Janeiro. His artistic practice navigates gaps—between activities, materials, actions, and time—as a means to foster dialogue and reflection. Rooted in contra-colonial perspectives, his work draws on the traditions of Brazilian rodas—circular gatherings that preserve collective memory, survival tactics, and ethical frameworks. Through interdisciplinary methods, including oral histories, movement practices, and historical research, Christiano employs the roda as both subject and methodology, exploring its potential to inform contemporary decolonial art practices and deepen understanding of diasporic resilience.

Christiano holds an MA in Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon (PT, 2019) and a BA in Graphic Design from UNESA, Rio de Janeiro (BR, 2010).

He has participated in residencies including Projekt Europa (GB, 2024), Resvés (PT, 2019), Projeto Pontes (PT, 2019), Aldeias em Abandono (PT, 2017), Scottish Sculpture Workshop (GB, 2016) and Plataforma Emergências (BR, 2016).

His work has been exhibited in the exhibitions d'ici-là, Labastide-Villefranche (FR, 2021), [... ] un angle à perte de vue..., Biarritz (FR, 2020), Resvés, Castro Marim (PT, 2019), Douro Híbrido, Porto (PT, 2019) and Galeria Celeiro, Niterói (BR, 2017).

Christiano also has works published by the Off Flip Literature Prize (BR, 2020), Mauvaises Herbes (FR, 2020) and in Convocarte #8 (PT, 2019).