Estevan Davi Brazil, b. 1999

Estevan Davi was born in 1999 in Brazil and lives and works in São Paulo. His practice is a constant experimentation in the studio, a laboratory of materials and elemental processes where time and matter produce speculative vestiges of imagined civilizations. In his work, concrete, iron, and oil paint, often combined in fresco paintings on cement, are investigated as active agents in dialogue with erosion, oxidation, and the direct action of the elements. References drawn from diverse mythologies and belief systems run through the practice, appropriated beyond their historical register: they appear as still-active structures, repeat and manifest in contemporary life and in the ways we narrate life, death, desire, and the sacred.

Recent exhibitions include Dias Depois da Queda “O Clarão”, Vermelho, São Paulo, (2025), Adiar o fim do mundo at FGV Arte, Rio de Janeiro (2025), and Cannibal Nature at Baró Galeria, Palma de Mallorca (2025). His work is part of the collection of the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes (MNBA), Rio de Janeiro.