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Arthur de OliveiraArtist, Filmmaker, Performance Maker, Poet

Jabuticaba, Casca. 

Jabuticaba is a series that explores the Jabuticaba fruit from Brazil. Jabuticaba trees are commonly found around the country sound of São Paulo and posses a unique relationship to the local culture. This project is designed as a series that investigates the materiality of the fruit. This particular work examines the texture and skin of the fruit post consumption. Jabuticaba skins are not swallowed and when spat out contort and contract , seedless, and divided from its round and plump shape. 

Encounter: tensions

Encounter: tensions is a work that investigates the moment of interaction between tension, pattern, repetition, movement, and material. Thread is embroidered in various ways across the three works and serve as contrast to one another. Charcoal is also used to contrast the difference between the consistency of the material as a fading encounter and the tension that thread holds as it attaches to the material.  

Summer Silence 



Summer silence seeks to explore space through contrast, repetition, patter, and patchwork.

Withered

Withered uses material left out in the abu dhabi weather for a 3 year period. Deteriorated and crumpled from the heat, sunlight, and occasional rain, the 
material is restructured to push the boundaries of its own fragility.


About



Fibers and threads from wrangles are born into cloth. Once cut the threads dangle off its edges and live life in between the bounds and reaches of a tear and the unpredictability of swaying in the wind. Arthur de Oliveira is a Brazilian artist, poet, theater practitioner, and filmmaker from Limeira, São Paulo, Brazil who uses a loom to piece together his life, thoughts, experiences and curiosities into his practice and scissors to discover the world and its possibilities. 

His works are woven threads, every strand being a new perspective and inspiration uprooted from the multicultural environment he grew up in from Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates to Japan where he is based. Between the cuts, warps, and wefts, he studied film and theater at New York University Abu Dhabi (2019) and obtained a master’s degree in fine arts at Tokyo University of the Arts (2024).

Exhibitions

  • Sugar, Sugar. Collaborative Exhibition. Installation. Tokyo, Japan. 2025.

  • Underground Water Vein. Butoh Performance. Tokyo, Japan. 2024. 

  • The Birth of the Yamanba. Tokyo Showcase. Tokyo, Japan. 2024.

  • 擦る [To Scrub]. master’s final artwork showcase. Tokyo, 2024.

  • The Birth of the Yamanba. Toyooka Theater Festival Fringe Selection. Butoh Performance. Toyooka, Hyogo, Japan. 2023.

  • Intervention by Spaces. Tokyo Festival Farm: Asian Performing Arts Camp. Butoh Performance Tokyo, Japan. 2022

  • Withered. “After the Beep.” Satellite, Al Serkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Group show. Sculpture. 2021.

  • Summer Midday. Cultural Foundation Residency Show. Art Space, Al Jimi Mall Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. Solo Show. Installation. 2021.

  • The Jiu Jitsu Project (Queimada), The Jiu Jitsu Project (Decisions of Plants). “East-East Vol.4: The Curio Shop”, ILY, Hub. Tokyo, Japan. Group Show. Installation, 2021.

  • Days Go By. The Youth Take Over. Jameel Arts Center, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Group Show. Video Installation, 2020.

  • When Grown Wild and Far. Director and Screenwriter. Official Selection of FestCiMM Festival de Cinema no Meio do Mundo. Brazil. 2020.

  • When Grown Wild and Far. Director and Screenwriter. Official Selection of Lisbon Film Rendezvous, 2019. Film. Lisbon, Portugal. 2019

Accomplishments

  • 豊岡演劇祭2023のフリンジ (2023) Toyooka, Hyogo, Japan. (Toyooka Theater Festival 2023 Fringe Selection).

  • 東京藝術大学奨学金「安宅賞奨学基金」(2023) Tokyo, Japan. (Tokyo University of the Arts Grant “Ataka Prize Grant”)

  • 文部科学大臣 (MEXT) awarded by nomination (2023) Tokyo, Japan.

  • Tokyo Festival Farm: Asian Performing Arts Camp (2023) Tokyo, Japan.

  • Alserkal Summer Program, Guest Programmer (Jun 2022 - Aug 2022) Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

  • Invitational Speaker at the 13th Emirates Airline Festival of Literature (Jan 2021) Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

  • Cultural Foundation Abu Dhabi Performance Grant (2021) Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

  • Cultural Foundation Art Residency （2021 ）Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

  • The Youth Take Over, Jameel Art Center (Feb 2020 - Nov 2020) Dubai United Arab Emirates.

  • Golden Visa for the United Arab Emirates as a Literary Writer (2021) United Arab Emirates.

Published Literature

  • concern of future/the present: hello. JARA collective. Poetry Chapbook. 2020.

  • Poems and pros. Postscript Magazine. 2020, 2019.

  • Poems and pros. Airport Road Magazine. 2019.

Contact


Email: deoliveira.arth@gmail.com

Workshop Facilitator


  • Art Workshop Conducted with Immigrant Kids in Toshima City. With the Support of the Immigration Museum Tokyo and NPO法人 芸術家と子どもたち. Tokyo, 2025. 

  • Art workshops conducted for Middle School kids in Adachi, Tokyo with fellow artists Ayana Sata and Flor. With the support of the Immigration Museum Tokyo. 2024.