Close-up of the installation (2025) “Ofrenda de Orula” – Ceramic sculpture featuring glazed ceramic fruits in green and yellow, including coconut, avocado, pumpkin, lime, and grapefruit.
Geraldo Dos Santos (b. 1993, The Netherlands/Brazil) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice moves through the unstable terrains of santeria, hauntology, and belonging. His work operates in the thresholds between memory and mythology, intimacy and collectivity, the familiar and the uncanny. Rooted in migration and transcultural experience, Dos Santos engages the past not as something fixed, but as an unsettled archivefragmented, haunted, and reactivated through ritual, naratief, and form. His research pursues the fragile intersections of identity and heritage, where personal memory collides with collective histories, and where cultural legacies both bind and estrange. Working across painting, material sculptures and installation, he employs multiplicity as method. His installations, in particular, foreground tension, between ritual resilience and vulnerability, material and immaterial, spiritual and corporeal. Rather than offering coherence, they cultivate ambiguity: an “emulsion” of symbols, gestures, and materials that resists resolution, instead revealing the porousness of memory and tradition. At the core of his practice lies an inquiry into unstable relationships, between people and places, myths and migrations, care and loss. Through this, Dos Santos positions art as a site of rupture and re-assembly, where narratives of belonging can be both questioned and reimagined.