Triennale di Milano

Panel: “Going Deep: Community-Based Arts”

In June 2025, I was invited to speak at Art for Tomorrow, an international conference that brings together artists, thinkers, architects, curators, and cultural leaders to discuss the role of art in addressing contemporary social challenges. The event took place at the Triennale di Milano and featured prominent names such as Jeff Koons, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Amanda Williams, among others.

I participated in the opening panel, titled "Going Deep: Community-Based Arts", alongside Alvaro Barrington, Alessandro Cinque, and Michele De Lucchi, moderated by Roslyn Sulcas (The New York Times).

The conversation focused on artistic practices rooted in local communities, collaborative processes, and the tensions between social urgency and creative vision. I brought a critical perspective on how institutional art spaces often reproduce exclusions—even when claiming to challenge them. I spoke about my experience with pixação as a political language, and about the role of art made from the margins — by those who are not always invited into the center.