How was your childhood in Nilópolis and in what ways do the memories of that time dialogue with your work today?

From my first step until 18 I lived in the same house. In fact, it was almost Mesquita, another municipality in Baixada Fluminense. This region can also be called Chatuba de Mesquita. My paternal grandfather was part of the Navy, and he guaranteed a home and higher education for all his children, influenced by my grandmother. I recognize this setting as my structure. The street where I lived was taken by traffic. There were often shootings during military police operations. Within my house, my father's compulsive masculinity sought to interfere and project my personality. I grew up effeminate! At school, I was rejected. During the weekends, I had theater classes. I fantasized about living. At every breath opportunity I created stories and fantasies. I wanted to create everything from scratch. As a teenager, winning a used computer from my aunt made me spend afternoons looking for ways to produce everything that would give me space to say something. I imagined life in all capitals that I memorized the name from the World Map. There was no limit to that will. With each discovery I said goodbye to this invention of myself. In this story, the great engine was my mother, who reached out and propelled me. I believe that my artistic production arises from a conversation about and between these memories. I look at the world and I see it a lot in me. What part of my traumas and happiness is also the world. And how can I interfere and project it.

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When did your relationship with softwares start? The limits of the physical world that made you immerse yourself in this virtual path?

My love story with the computer began when I met The Sims. I went almost every day to the lan house, to create a person, a house, a story. Then, when I had one at home, I dived. Within the game, I started to set up studios, record a soap opera, then series, clips, talk shows. Nothing was far away and the more impossible, the more time I dedicated myself to accomplish. By this time, I already mastered Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Premiere and After Effects. Which guaranteed me a video editor internship. With that, I became interested in video art and discovered that I could be an artist and work with technology. During this period, I traveled between Oi Kabum and Parque Lage. At the closing exhibition I presented my first 3D animation, a clip for No Porn. At that point in my life, I found myself as a black queer artist, dealing with leaving home and Matheusa's recent murder. I was very marked by violence and devalued by Rio de Janeiro. Too afraid to live and die. I realized that I, being who I am, have no time to play. Going digital was a haven. I needed to see, think about another time, other laws. Without humanity.