Curatorial Projects

Curated by Brazilian-American art historian Kelly M. Ward, South America/American South is a thematic exhibition featuring painting, sculpture, and photography by Matheus DeSiqueira, Daniela Flint, Natália Mott, and Victor Vasconcelos—four artists of Brazilian descent with ties to the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Themes of the exhibition are of cultural identity and duality, yearning and nostalgia (saudades), personal reflection, and aspects of how the idea of home, relocation, and belonging are explored and defined by the millennial artists and curator.
 

Matheus DeSiqueira is an interdisciplinary artist (b. 1998, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil) who currently resides in Dallas. DeSiqueira’s work explores themes of memory, time, loss, displacement, and softness. Through the use of found materials and photographic processes, he examines the beauty that emerges from chaos. His practice reflects on the surreal qualities of everyday life and the emotional landscapes that shape our shared human experience. By engaging with personal relationships and lived moments, his work invites vulnerability, intimacy, and reflection.

Film and digital photography, sculpture, cyanotype, print, and mixed media

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Artist and curator Daniela Flint (b. 1994, Boston, MA) recently relocated from Dallas in 2025 and now lives and works in Boston. Her art practice challenges the viewer to question the systems and personal perception of how value is perceived. As a Latinx artist, Flint’s art practice also references cultural duality of her lived experience as a Brazilian-American.

• Oil painting and papier-mâché sculpture

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Natália Mott (b. 1993, Igrejinha, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) is a self-taught painter working in Fort Worth. Mott’s Christian faith is an integral part of her practice. Mott’s personal experience through painting is grounded in spiritual, ethereal, and liminal elements—becoming a way to connect with God, herself, and externally with others and the world around her.

• Oil and acrylic painting

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Victor Vasconcelos (b. 1987, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a photographer, visual artist, and educator based between Brazil and The Colony, Texas. Trained in Fine Arts at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), his work is grounded in a documentary approach that investigates Rio as a cultural construction. His practice explores the relationship between landscape, identity, and memory, observing how natural elements such as mountains, vegetation, and coastline intersect with the urban and symbolic experience of the city. Through his photography, Vasconcelos seeks not only to document territory, but to reveal the invisible layers that shape the cultural imagination of Rio, connecting the visible with the intangible.

• Digital photography