About — Diego Mouro

Diego Mouro (São Bernardo, 1988) lives and works in São Paulo. A self-taught artist, his practice moves between oil painting and contemporary muralism, investigating the formation and resistance strategies of Afro-diasporic culture in Brazil. Moved by the spiritual dimension of Black sensibilities through their traces, practices and ritual knowledge, Mouro has exhibited his work in Brazil, France, Mexico and South Africa. Gesture, in his work, operates as a playful vector between the pictorial and its borders: the passage of time, notions of aging, loss, and also what resists this passage, are all traversed by his brushstrokes. As a Black artist, Mouro also claims the right not to address only his Blackness: by creating a series on flowers—a theme deeply rooted in the history of white Western art—he fights for the right to a subjectivity that is not solely defined by race, but rather crosses and transcends it.

With a sensitive palette, pictorial solutions aimed at high density, and a vocabulary that crosses regionalism, the sacred, and the popular, Diego Mouro transforms painting into a territory of reconnection and reinvention — a way of affirming the permanence of the invisible, the right to subjective complexity, and the power of symbols in motion.

REPRESENTED BY MITRE GALERIA

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