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A Brazilian artist and creative director based in Portugal, Vinicius develops a poetic and disruptive narrative orbiting post-structuralist inquiries and subjective experiences. His artistic practice explores the intersections of gender, race, sexuality, class, and LGBTQIA+ migrant territoriality, proposing new frameworks for reflection on contemporary sociocultural dynamics. At the core of his work lies the questioning of the collective imagination surrounding non-normative bodies, using desire as a tool for deconstruction, resistance, and creation.
His aesthetic language is rooted in decolonial processes, the anti-heroism of power representations, and the critique of hegemonic consumption. Bringing the perspective of a “Latin American queer from the periphery,” he has unfolded this gaze into fashion projects across collaborations with renowned publications and brands such as Elle, Glamour, Vogue, Nin Magazine, Farm Rio, Melissa, Nike, and Adidas.
In cinema, he has signed the art direction and costume design of award-winning music videos and films screened at prestigious festivals such as Cannes, Berlinale, Rotterdam, Queer Porto, Brasília, Gramado, and IFA. He has worked with cultural icons and personalities including Anitta, Zuaa Isabel, Welket Bungué, Cardi B, Céu, Liniker, Linn da Quebrada, Gloria Groove, Criolo, and Gisele Bündchen. Among his most substantial works in cinema are Kbela—awarded Best Short Film of the African Diaspora by the African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) in 2017—and Deus tem AIDS—awarded Best Film at the Queer Porto Festival in 2021. In 2025, his new film The Passion According to GHB, in which Vinicius plays the central role, is a Visual AIDS–funded production set to premiere on December 1 in New York, expanding his queer aesthetic narrative in dialogue with intersectional discourses.
In 2016, after seroconverting for HIV, he began a self-reflective and performative journey, incorporating his lived experience as an inseparable part of his artistic poetics. Projects such as Libertar-se (2017) and I=I or Undetectable = Untransmittable (2018) translate into visual language the political and subjective dimension of living with HIV, with exhibitions at the Cairo Biennial (EGY), the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (MAM-SP), and CMA Hélio Oiticica (RJ).
His production engages with lived experience and post-structuralist theory, moving through international residencies and solo exhibitions. In 2021, he was selected for the Konvent.zero Residency (Spain) and invited to perform at André Breton’s house, the founder of Surrealism, during the first international residency Radicale1924 in Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, France. That same year he completed a three-month residency at EtopiaZgz (Spain), culminating in his first solo exhibition.
In 2022, he joined the Linha de Fuga residency (Portugal) and presented the site-specific installation Pro_cu.rar.se at Casa Independente and Largo do Intendente in Lisbon. In 2023, he participated in the Cairo Biennial under the curatorship of Simon Njami, within a section coordinated by Mônica Hirano. In 2024, he presented works at the Precárias Performance Festival by Tita Maravilha, took part in a panel discussion at TBA curated by Melissa Rodrigues, and joined a group exhibition in Germany. He also serves as curator of the artist residency at Palácio do Grilo—a living museum and historical heritage site in Lisbon—where he develops collaborative work with over 40 artists, including Thiago Granato, Mikhail Karikis, Teat(r)o Oficina, and Madonna. Additionally, he has created performances and projects for globally prestigious fashion brands such as Gucci, Marc Jacobs, Burberry, and Calvin Klein.
His trajectory is inscribed at the convergence of politics, aesthetics, and desire, reaffirming the power of dissident bodies as active agents of social and cultural transformation.
