Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (b. 1993)

Tadáskía

lacraia tears, 2024

Charcoal, dry pastel, spray and felt-tip pen on paper
© Tadáskía

Tadáskía; the artist sees herself as “a kind of turbulent tornado.” Image courtesy of the Nevada Museum of Art. Photo by Asa Gilmore.

“Now I have noticed the distinction between socially produced suffering and suffering as an event of nature, of impure nature. I realized suffering is not necessarily in the created form, but in the journey of arrival to the form, in placing the form (texture, lines, colors…) alive in the world.”

—Tadáskía