ARTIST STATEMENT:

I perceive my sculptures as a soundscape, as if they were alive and could speak. I draw inspiration from rituals and experiences I grew up with, giving tribute to Capoeira and Afro-Brazilian cultural heritage.

The latest works that I am creating are intended to be sound pieces. They can be activated with touch and respect. I like to invite people to interact with my work, playing with objects as if they were subjects with a sound of their own, a voice of their own. Through this practice I want to nurture the inner child. The child doesn’t know the separation between human and non-human actors, naturally grasping a living object, loaded with fantasy and tangible mystery. Connecting us with the spiritual world and our ancestors, this is for me the role that art has always carried and is nowadays sometimes forgotten.

– Araiké Treccani Da Silva

BIOGRAPHY:

Araiké Treccani Da Silva (b. 2000) is an interdisciplinary artist whose current work navigates the intersections of sculpture, performance, and sound. Born to a Brazilian Capoeira Master and an Italian dancer, Da Silva’s practice is deeply rooted in a multicultural dialogue between Italy and Brazil. In 2011 Da Silva began to attend the Genoa Comics Academy where he learned the art of drawing. Araiké then enrolled at the Artistic Highschool School Paul Klee-Nicoló Barabino where he deeply explored the figurative arts, becoming passionate about sculpture and philosophy.

Later he studied in Southampton, where he acquired his knowledge of both analog and digital photography. Araiké won the first prize in the drawing competition“Draw Not War” and won the national competition “Photographing the Divine Comedy”. Araiké Da Silva lives in Berlin since 2019, where he continued his studies at the KHB in the field of sculpture and performance. In 2021 he founded Kunst Studio 16, a project space and in the heart of Wedding Soldiner Kiez, in northwest Berlin. During the pandemic he dedicated most of his practice to painting, sculpture and photography. However the art of Capoeira always accompanied him and often influenced his work, especially in the sound practices, clearly becoming more present in his performances.

Over this years, Araiké has participated in various group exhibitions in Italy, Germany and Brazil. In Genoa, he exhibits at the Palazzo Ducale, the Museo S. Agostino, and Spazio 21. He exhibited with Bill Viola among other artists, taking 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 important institutions like Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, with the Performance Meta-Roda on the occasion of the exhibition 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
In September 2025 he participates in the Public Program Conjunctions of the 36th Biennial in Sao Paulo performing at the opening of the exhibition as a guest of the Master Program Raum Strategien.