Araiké Treccani da Silva is interested in the animistic aspects that can be found in art and nature: he treats the sculpture as a landscape, as if it were alive, in constant change. He is inspired by shamanic and ritualistic experiences he grew up with, translating them into performance, activating his artworks and interacting with the public. He is concerned about the use of material, movement, and sound practices as expressions of cultural resilience.
He often uses found materials such as fabric, mirrors, stones, wood, cardboard, metal, and concrete. He understands his body as an instrument, using it to play rhythms and encourage collective performances. Accepting the becoming, being guided by the process, is an opportunity for encounter. In some recent works, Araiké Treccani da Silva uses the term symbiosis (from the Greek συμβίωσις "live together"), as a metaphor to describe the coexistence between different materials and dialectics: the fight and the dance, cardboard and concrete, the masculine and the feminine, wood and metal, the animal and the vegetable, seeking a synthesis between apparent polarities.
Araiké Treccani Da Silva is a Italian-Brazilian artist born in Genoa in 2000. In 2017 he studied in England and learned the use of analogue and digital photography. In 2018, he won the national competition ‘Photographing the Divine Comedy’. Subsequently, he graduated from the Liceo artistico N. Barabino in Genoa. Since 2019 he lives and works in Berlin, where to continue his studies in the field of sculpture and perfromance he is enrolled at the academy Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee.
Over the past five years, he has participated in various group exhibitions in Italy and Germany. In Genoa, he exhibits at the Palazzo Ducale, the Museo S. Agostino, and Spazio 2l. In Liguria, together with Bill Viola and other artists, he took part in the sixth edition of the {Te}che Festival, curated by the cultural association Emsteludanza at the Chiostri di Finalborgo. In Berlin, he took part in exhibitions in various cultural spaces, including institutions like Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt ,where he made his debut with the Performance Meta-Roda on the occasion of the exhibition The Ballet of the Masses. In 2021, he opened his first solo exhibition Traum und Tragödie in Berlin at Kultur Volk, curated by art historian Gloria Aino Grzywatz.