Christiano Mere is a Brazilian artist, writer, and movement-based researcher, born in Niterói and currently based in Glasgow. His interdisciplinary practice takes the roda—a circular space of listening, body, and language—as both form and method. Within this frame, time folds, knowledge circulates, and memory moves. Through gestures, silences, songs, and improvisations, his work occupies the gaps—between disciplines, histories, and registers. These ruptures become fertile ground for exploring art as a gesture of survival, collective memory, and future invention.
Christiano’s approach is grounded in contra-colonial methodologies and Afro-diasporic logics. Drawing particularly from oral traditions, ritual practices, and movement vocabularies such as Capoeira, he develops pidginised forms of research: open, impure, circular strategies that challenge the colonial fixity of categories like art, politics, and spirituality. His work proposes a counter-pedagogy rooted in difference, where listening becomes an embodied form of resistance and epistemological invention.
He holds an MA in Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon (2019) and a BA in Graphic Design from UNESA, Rio de Janeiro (2010). He has taken part in residencies such as The Work Room (GB, 2025), 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 and published across Brazil and Europe, including d’ici-là (FR, 2021), Un angle à perte de vue… (FR, 2020), Resvés (PT, 2019), Douro Híbrido (PT, 2019), and Galeria Celeiro (BR, 2017). His writings have appeared in the Off Flip Literature Prize (BR, 2020), Mauvaises Herbes (FR, 2020), and Convocarte #8 (PT, 2019).
