The artist discusses his work Uma [A Quickie], featured on the exhibition Nada levarei quando morrer, aqueles que me devem cobrarei no inferno [When I die I will take nothing, those who owe me I will charge in hell], on view at Galpão VB, about his contingent stumbling upon a scene of a couple’s intimate moment on a beach. Dias reveals he was divided between his interest in capturing the moment and his hesitation about intruding in someone else’s intimacy, and that this conflict between the public and the private encompasses the work and its exhibition. The artist also claims that the issue of intimacy traverses his entire work, and discusses the influence of his catholic upbringing and the impact in his relationship with the body.
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