Gê Viana graduated in Fine Arts at the Federal University of Maranhão and works in the transition between the backyard and the street. Her practice of digital and manual collage with the insertion of paintings is based on the study of images from public archives and her family’s memory, in a confrontation between the hegemonic colonizing culture and its systems of art and communication. She thinks of a way to create, alongside the history of her Anapuru people, the Afro-diasporic daily life of Maranhão, shining a light on other narratives — inventories that work on happier and more dignified possibilities, because she feels that our happiness has always been in danger.
In the act of photographing, life takes on portraits revealed by the Lambe-Lambe technique. Most of the supports are specific materials for each series, understanding them as a political field. Giving back her work to the streets is a social, aesthetic and educational process of formation, as it is an alive and living research.