Siwaju
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Overview
“For Siwaju, memory stands alongside time as a central force in the mobilizations she generates through cast sculpture. As though by reclaiming, twisting, transforming, oxidizing, recombining, and folding herself into the molten metal being poured, what is produced becomes more invested in instituting new sites and possibilities, in the sense of putting reality itself under tension, than in reflecting what it already contains.”
Daniela Avellar, 2023
Siwaju lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. A graduate in Visual Arts from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (2025), she participated in the Formação e Deformação Program at EAV Parque Lage (2022) and the Free School of Arts at Galpão Bela Maré (ELÃ, 2022). Her sculptural practice investigates the relationship between time and different ecologies, using reclaimed steel — donated, collected, and recycled — to build a direct connection with Brazilian three-dimensional thinking. Her works articulate interactions between matter and cosmos, visible and invisible energies, object and environment, sculptural body and space, always operating within a spiraling temporality, in constant expansion and return, activating Afro-diasporic knowledges.
Selected Works
Selected Exhibitions
Aos temporais, marés de retorno, 2026 | Auroras | São Paulo, Brasil © Ding Musa auroras
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