Diambe (BR, 1993)
Residency period: May-June 2025
Based in São Paulo, Diambe is an artist who critically examines the behavioral structures of society and whose practice blends several mediums such as choreography, sculpture, painting, and textiles. Following their interrogations of their position as a racialized body in a context of environmental degradation, Diambe’s work is marked by living materials, including the recurrent use of African-South American food roots or egg tempera. Through paintings, sculptures, and choreographies, Diambe seeks to relate architectures and environments to spontaneous movements in plural elaborations.
Diambe holds a BA in Social Communication from Rio de Janeiro University (UFRJ) in fellowship with Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and obtained an MA in Performing Arts from UFRJ.
Given the increasing climate changes affecting life on Earth, Diambe’s residency project at La Becque will be devoted to investigating permanence and perishability in the face of global warming. Using food and traditional art materials that are pertinent for their sculptural and pictorial practice, Diambe aims to create a natural and perishable landscape in beeswax, addressing hybrid bodies and how they are affected by the issues born out of environmental racism. This fragile installation aims to express its ambiental relations with pleasure, blackness, and food opulence. Based on audio and visual recordings, the final piece of this entropic installation will be a film that stages the deformation of this waxy landscape under the natural sunlight of the lakeside in the summer.