Gê Viana
Gê Viana
Quilombo Santa Rosa dos Pretos - Festa da Cabocla Tereza Légua na Crôa de Mãe Severina Silva em Homenagem a São Sebastião e Obrigação de Ano do Serviço de Dois Filhos de Santo "Cavaleiros" do Caboclo Roxo e Caboclo João Da Mata, Itapecuru Mirim, MA, 2024
Photograph
Courtesy of the artist


Gê Viana (Santa Luzia, 1986. Lives and works in São Luís) is a visual artist trained at the Universidade Federal do Maranhão. Her practice moves between domestic and urban spaces, combining manual and digital collage, painting, and the lambe-lambe photographic technique. Drawing from archival imagery and her family’s oral history, she constructs narratives of Afro-diasporic life in the Brazilian state of Maranhão while confronting hegemonic culture. She has participated in the Bienal das Amazônias (Belém, 2023), the 38th Panorama of Brazilian Art (Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, 2024), Histórias brasileiras (MASP, São Paulo, 2022), and the Borås Art Biennial (2024). Her work is included in the collections of the Pinacoteca de São Paulo and the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro.