Daniel NICOLAEVSKY

Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1991, Daniel Nicolaevsky Maria studied 3D cinema in São Paulo before continuing his EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND at the Beaux-Arts in Paris. A multidisciplinary artist, he expresses himself as much through matter as through the body, moving from painting to ceramics, from photography to contemporary dance.

A graduate since 2020, Daniel sets up diverse poetic devices aimed at questioning a complex history, in which the representation of bodies is often limiting. His emancipatory, radical and dreamlike works allow him to anchor his practice of resilience in an exponential human transmutation. His installations also give rise to performances or soundtracks, transgression becomes the key word of his artistic approach: Daniel Nicolaevsky Maria intervenes where he is not expected.

In his series Berceau du Monde, mattress slats are arranged on the floor or suspended in the air. The message is powerful, the surprise effect inevitable.

Through this panorama where animals and human beings coexist, Daniel Nicolaevsky Maria offers us his vision of the fragmented world. The alternation of voids and solids, typical of bed slats, gives substance to this central idea of the artist, in resonance with the planetary ecocide we are witnessing. His thoughts in prose unfold on the back of the wooden slats and bring an additional level of interpretation to his resolutely committed work.