Thainan Castro, born in 1990 in Rio de Janeiro – Brazil, is a visual artist with a bachelor’s degree in Design from PUC-Rio. In addition to being a designer and illustrator, he investigates and depicts memory: the unfolding of his drawing process through a physical recovery after an accident that temporarily took away his movements; the search for ordinary moments and objects as he wanders around the city; places he passes by, and memories of other moments once lived. He seeks to rescue reminiscences in order to create a playful and nostalgic universe, worn out by time.
Thainan Castro, born in 1990 in Rio de Janeiro – Brazil, is a visual artist with a bachelor’s degree in Design from PUC-Rio. In addition to being a designer and illustrator, he investigates and depicts memory: the unfolding of his drawing process through a physical recovery after an accident that temporarily took away his movements; the search for ordinary moments and objects as he wanders around the city; places he passes by, and memories of other moments once lived. He seeks to rescue reminiscences in order to create a playful and nostalgic universe, worn out by time.
The artist himself revisits stories that can also speak to other people, inviting the viewer to create particular relationships with the work, as part of those moments.
Exhibitions:
“Between the gap and the platform”(2018) at Solar Meninos de Luz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, curated by Oswaldo Carvalho; “Casa Voa” (2018), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; “From that summer”(2019), Escafandro Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; “Under the gravity of a Small Sun” (2019), Solar Grandjean de Montigny, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, curated by Cadu.
Selected artist for the Collector’s Club Galeria Matias Brotas Contemporary Art 2019 “Third Sky” (2020), with Marcelo Macedo – Matias Brotas Contemporary Art Gallery.
He worked as an assistant to different artists in Rio de Janeiro, and was a resident at Casa Voa from 2017 to 2020. Today he works in his studio in Rio de Janeiro. In Brazil, he is represented by Galeria Quadra in Rio de Janeiro, by Galeria Matias Brotas in Vitória, and by Arte Formatto in São Paulo.
