Glean

Nothing Ends in Emptiness

Glean 9, Autumn 2025

Essay by Phillip Van den Bossche

Abiniel João Nascimento (1996, Carpina, Brazil) lives and works in Recife. As an artist and researcher, they are interested in the transmutations of presence as a starting point. Their investigations focus on a territory-based poetics, revisiting themes such as Indigenous identities and conjugations of Brazilian memory, aligned with plant, mineral, and animal lives and temporalities. Sculptures, paintings, and art installations are among the techniques they work with.

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