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) 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 moved 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 and acrylic painting and papier-mâché sculpture

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Natália Mott (b. 1993, Igrejinha, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) is a Brazilian artist working in Fort Worth. A self-taught painter, Mott’s Christian faith is an integral part of her practice. Painting is a process for her that she finds hard to describe and has become 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 Brazilian photographer living in The Colony, Texas. He is also a professor of fine arts at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). A native Carioca, Vasconcelos is passionate about documenting the unique geography of Rio through the iconic flora, mountains, and beaches. His practice involves the idea of self-identity and what it means to be Brazilian and be Carioca. In his work, he eternalizes the beauty of Rio’s landscape.

• Digital photography