Matheus Rocha Pitta

Through different projects, he sedimented interests and strategies that allow identifying, in a work that becomes denser with each new work, a critical statement about the gestures that govern common life. The artist removes gestures from their biographical background and presents them as aesthetic acts with a historical dimension. Using photographs, videos, sculptures and installations, Rocha Pitta builds his own repertoire of gestures, which are activated directly with the public at his exhibitions. “Campo da Fome” is a vegetable garden of concrete and clay. Historically, the colonization of Brazil began with the monoculture of sugar cane, in the fertile lands along the coast. Cattle raising, subsistence and family farming was pushed into the less fertile interior, the famous “sertões”, the poorest part of the country and the main source of internal migration in the 20th century. Left untouched, the sculpture performs this closure and restraint of hunger, like an amulet or altar that would prevent its propagation. Matheus Rocha Pitta,1980, born in Tiradentes/ Minas Gerais/ Brazil, lives and works in Berlin, Germany.