BONI, MEMORIES AND EXPERIENCES

Ronne Franklim Dias*

Curator 

Boni's artistic production is born from a sensitive relationship with the landscape, memory, and the ways of existence of the Equatorial Amazon. His paintings do not simply represent a place: they are visual experiences built by the contact between what is lived and remembered. Along this path, topographic images emerge, crossed by a pulsating colorism, configuring a narrative of experience and memory.

This poetics is also revealed in the materiality of the painting. Layers applied with spatulas, brushes, and other procedures accumulate and leave traces of the making itself. Fragmentations, dense lines, stains, and washes transition between the figurative and the abstract. The surface thus transforms into a space of gestures and inscriptions.

The Amazon does not appear as an idealized landscape, but as a territory of vitality and vulnerability. Fragments, windows, and ruptures cross the compositions as signs of an environment undergoing transformation. The landscape ceases to be a backdrop to become a witness. In the experiences lived by the artist in Marajó, an affective reference remains that feeds his gaze and brings natural and anthropic elements closer to riverside knowledge.

There is, finally, a poetics of the fragment: each image suggests a larger territory. Between layers and linear demarcations, Boni transforms Amazonian experiences into visual matter, converting the landscape into memory and gesture. Faced with socio-environmental issues, his painting invites us to take a lingering look at what exists, what may disappear, and what we can still recognize, remember, and care for.

September 25, 2026. 

* Full Professor at the Federal Institute of Amapá (IFAP). PhD in Art and Visual Culture (UFG). Coordinator of Virtual Art Gallery 21.