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Arthur de OliveiraArtist, Filmmaker, Performance Maker, Poet

Sugar, Sugar

In poetry, we often don’t know where words come from. Recalling memories from our future selves, someone else, or somewhere far away, the threads of language are spun together mysteriously. What are the connections? Where is the origin? The tug and pull of words always remains uncertain. We weave words while embracing this ambiguity, instability, and invisibility. Between simplistic beauty and the threat of chaos dissolving everything of all meaning, we sew on within the fragility of everything. 


When we whisper "sugar, sugar" it holds an enchanting power both fragile and strong. Like sugar that instantly melts on the tongue, it is about remembering the small, hidden memories of daily life. A single thread extends countless luminous frays, swaying freely through a breeze. The things that are connected, the things that are not, the things that have drifted apart—each of these movements intertwines, trembling as they touch the “everything” that fills the space between us.



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.