Sérgio Cezar

The artist Sérgio Cezar takes apart the city’s trash, bit by bit, and reconstructs it in another fashion, substituting ingredients, discovering new elements and inverting them.

Cardboard, the material used in this phase of his work, is just as noble a medium as bronze.

Sérgio transforms cardboard from its function as a covering, a container, and turns it into an instrument of art. He rescues the memory of the city and with this the self-esteem of disadvantaged communities, showing that it is possible to make works of art out of consumer society’s leftovers.

Sérgio, with his work, breaks the monopoly of education and access to art.

The excluded and forgotten rediscover history, not the version of the winners, but build their own history.

And this history is part of the rhythm, image and sounds collected and reconstructed from trash.

Society’s excluded can now read and write of the city, learn its meanings, perceive its collapse and replace it in the space from which they have been excluded.

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