Ikaro Cavalcante (@occulted) considers themself a transdisciplinary artist but has been working mainly with digital practices since they were a teenager. Their background involves graphic design, tattooing, and performances. Their artworks are an invitation to abstract feelings and themes related to spirituality, nature, technology, games, and identity. They are exploring and creating a unique perspective on the relationships between these elements in our contemporary world

They feel they have been talking a lot about memory in previous works, mostly because they have elements of or make references to particular memories, but also because they love the concept of memory, from a biological and technological perspective of accessing an specific image in our brains and trying to remember it, adding layers of complexity and feelings, being blurred while it’s loading and being mixed with tons of subsconscious elements. The moment we try to remember a specific feeling of first interactions with technology and virtuality is always something that intrigues them and they feel it’s connected with their art somehow.

Everything is cyclic

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Ikaro Cavalcante (occulted), 2022. 

Cyclic Paradise

Metaverse Coatlicue Implant

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The Spring

FlowerGirl

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Las Luces 

Solarium

The future is over: the metastasis is inside high definition screens. How is it possible to talk about art and micropolitics when discussing NFTs? How are new worlds and alternative possibilities represented within peripheral societal groups when dealing with servers and financial markets settled in Silicon Valley? 

Some answers to these questions can be seen when facing experiences and world building from the perspective of artists from the world’s borders. From this perspective, the future can be visualized in parallel and liminal lines: as Donna Haraway states, it matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories. This way, the creative endeavor works as a tool in the production of other knowledges and representations, where ancestral and geographic identity relations determine the possibilities within which new worlds can be thought, as well as other narratives and discursive relations from Latin America and the Global South. Places which are far away from global metropolitan centers, where leakage lines emerge to produce an agency capable of contributing to the configuration of a new decolonial world: to be faced with seeds in the bloom of new alternative and expansive places.

These works are presented within interdisciplinary correlations; an erotic dialogue side by side with technology and art, where tentacular patterns are proposed, where the third world is born as a possibility for ancestral, rhizomatic futures that cohabit present and future timelines, conjugating an expansive and situated projection, which displaces hegemonic significance and takes them from void spaces, those liminal places where divergence flourishes and matter and art converge.


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