Adriano Machado
Adriano Machado is a visual artist from Feira de Santana, Brazil, whose practice explores relationships between identity, territory, memory, and Afro-inventive territories. Working across photography, video, installation, and performance, he investigates how images can activate memories, affections, and forms of belonging. His research emerges from experiences of displacement and encounters across the African diaspora, connecting personal narratives with broader histories and cultural landscapes. Through constructed images and performative gestures, Machado moves between fiction, creating spaces where the everyday, the ancestral, and the fantastical intersect.
Thoughts on the lab
My time at Latitude helped me reflect on creative processes and relationships with people. Through experiences of proximity and distance, openness and reciprocity, I continued to develop a practice in which, during artistic residencies, I am often more interested in the relationships that happen outside the photographic studio. It is through these lived experiences that I build and investigate how photography can critique the world or create bridges that allow people to speak more about their souls than their bodies.
It was also a period that allowed me to deepen my understanding of African American culture, including its connections and differences with the Black Brazilian community.