transXperience
the project

Inspired by geographic space, the object of study of his beloved science, Igor creates with plurality and breadth. He explores the spaces of exchange between human beings and the environment. This is why his work carries many pseudonyms: each character inhabits a specific field of knowledge.

Igor also works with visual arts, music and cinema, almost always through his great passion and starting point: writing. Song lyrics, short film scripts and presentation texts for artworks are some of his contributions in these areas.

Beyond art, Igor is a sports fan. He has played amateur handball since the age of 13 and still plays in Berlin, Germany. Curious about new cultures and languages, he has visited more than 50 countries. Traveling and exchanging experiences with people from different parts of the world feeds his thoughts and stories.

A self-declared romantic, Igor is moved by strong, profound music and films. Creativity has followed him since childhood, and he is not afraid to use it. Mythology fascinates him, especially African mythology. He admires and honors the orixás of Candomblé, even without being a formal devotee of the religion.

Born in Recife, Brazil, Igor carries the flag of his home state, Pernambuco, wherever he goes. Married to a German man, he lives between Berlin and Düsseldorf. It is in the constant clash between his Brazilian-born self and his German-naturalized self that Igor creates and recreates his projects.

I was born in Minas Gerais (Brazil), and from there I still carry the colours of the Cerrado and the tireless habit of having faith in life. The experience I draw from there is reflected in handcrafted objects that I transpose into digital media and reinterpret to present a contemporary vision. My time in New York trained my eye to view this repertoire from a distance and to give it the weight it deserves. In Campinas and São Paulo, I intensified my work in advertising and publishing, where (in addition to campaigns for major brands such as Samsung, Kopenhagen, L’Occitane, GE, BASF, the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, Rede Globo and the Pensarte Institute, amongst many others) I honed a precise understanding of how images persuade. During this time, I set up businesses and ventured into the world of design-focused publishing: articles and content on the subject, the in-house publishing studio Dezoito at the RAI Group, the production of the books Imagens do Sagrado: entre a Paris Match e O Cruzeiro (2003) and Vendo-me, Livro-me (2006), and the Diretores Brasileiros catalogues on Eduardo Coutinho and Antônio Calmon (2004). Teaching went hand in hand with this: aesthetics, packaging design and print production at PUC-Campinas and IPEP, and a graphic design course created from scratch at Escola Pró-Arte. The essays in DiCotoco magazine continue this line of work to this day.

Studio practice turns this knowledge back upon itself. Furniture design at FAAP (2016), visual thinking with Carlos Fajardo (2017) and MoMA’s In the Studio: Postwar Abstract Painting programme (2017) charted a new course towards contemporary art.

Berlin has been my home since 2019 and gives me a third perspective, which, together with the other two, forms a decisive triad in the construction of my life’s repertoire. Studio 60B, my studio-home, is where these references converge.

TRANSXPERIENCE, co-created with Igor Arnold de Almeida, is yet another chapter in my universe, one in which I am responsible for the concept, creative direction, visual poems and illustration. The visual poems stem from a critique of consumption, of the technology that mediates perception and of the ease with which a filtered world is mistaken for the real one.