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Artwork Description

Hal Wildson (b. 1991, Barra do Garças/MT; lives and works in São Paulo) is a Brazilian multimedia artist and poet whose practice explores memory, identity, forgetting and the writing/rewriting of collective and personal histories through a range of media including typewritten images, stamping, photography, installation and poetic text-image works. Central to Wildson’s work is a critical engagement with national symbols, archives and documents—from typewriters and identity cards to flags and historical imagery—as tools to confront and reimagine Brazil’s official narratives, particularly those shaped by marginalization, colonialism, agribusiness expansion and social exclusion. Wildson questions the stories we choose to remember and forget, dissolving boundaries between archive and memory, and inviting reflection on how utopian futures can be planted through critical remembrance of past injustices. His works often layer typewritten text and symbolic imagery to emphasize how memory and forgetting are interwoven in the construction of cultural identity, making art a space for both critique and hope. Across his evolving practice, Wildson uses symbolic objects and documentary techniques to challenge dominant historical narratives and open poetic spaces for more just, inclusive visions of collective identity and history.