David Almeida

Born in 1989, Brasília – Brazil
Lives and works in São Paulo – Brazil

David Almeida’s practice is rooted in pictorial experimentation across diverse media, including canvas, linen, wood, ceramics, and printmaking. His work focuses on the dynamic relationship between body and space, weaving together memory, perception, and the landscapes of intimacy, the city, and regional Brazil.

Within his pictorial field, Almeida navigates the threshold between reality and imagination, moving fluidly between dense, material figurative painting and gestures approaching abstraction. Natural elements often appear displaced in his compositions, imbuing them with a spiritual and metaphysical resonance.

Themes of memory, corporeality, phantasmagoria, and optical perception permeate his production, giving rise to images where landscape becomes a subtle manifestation of cultural identity and collective experience. The density of his painted nights, for instance, reflects a poetic and oblique process of visual construction, where sensation and representation remain in constant dialogue.

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