Rafael RG (b.1986, Guarulhos, Brazil) is a visual artist and writer. He gained his BA in Visual Arts from the University of Fine Arts of São Paulo. His practice focuses on sexual and affective relationships and their political implications as well as issues of racial identity. Working with institutional and personal archives, he presents his research through workshops, installations, performative texts, publications and objects. His residencies include Black Rock Senegal, Dakar (2019): Gasworks, UK (2018); and The Iberê Camargo Scholarship for residency at Künstlerhaus Bremen (2014), among others. His works were included in various exhibitions in Brazil, Germany, Colombia, Spain, Poland and Australia. He lives and works between Guarulhos, Recife and São Luís, Brazil. He lives and works between Belo Horizonte and São Luís, Brazil.

The Grant will be used for the production of new work. The project Caminhos da Liberdade has as its starting point the research on escape routes that enslaved Afro-descendants developed in three Brazilian territories that have had different events related to the history of emancipation: Bairro do Bexiga (SP), Redenção (CE), and Florianópolis (SC).