Zé Tepedino
Zé Tepedino (b. 1990, Rio de Janeiro) lives and works in Rio de Janeiro and graduated in Visual Communication from PUC-Rio in 2016. His practice is rooted in a continuous composition with the city, drawing from attentive observation of everyday materials, spaces, and situations.
Working with discarded objects, fabrics, and found elements, he reorganizes what is already there—foregrounding traces, memory, and transformation while proposing new ways of perceiving the familiar.
Across site-specific interventions, installations, and works on paper, Tepedino approaches art as an active process shaped by gesture and encounter.
Moving between the city and the beach, the chaotic and the calm, he recombines elements through simple operations — sewing, assembling, painting — allowing the process itself to act as a co-author. His work unfolds as a dialogue with shifting environments, where composition becomes a way of being with and within the world.
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