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.
As an ongoing project, Ponta-Cabeça extends this line of enquiry without resolving it. It operates as a
long-term, collaborative project structured through the same circular logic, where authorship disperses and
time folds back on itself. Ponta-Cabeça is a project that shares traditional Brazilian cultures of resistance.
The project remains deliberately unstable, shifting across contexts and participants, accumulating gestures, fragments,
and refusals rather than outcomes. In this sense, it does not conclude the practice but holds it in suspension,
turning it quietly and continuously upside down.
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 KWAN Collective, London (UK, 2025), The Work Room, Glasgow (UK, 2025), Projekt Europa – Projekt Europa, London (UK, 2024), 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).
