Samuel de Saboia (b. 1998, Brazil) is a mixed media artist and creative director known for works that address existential dichotomies such as life and death, pain and pleasure, and virtue and vice. The artist’s vibrant, energetic paintings also relay fragments of his own personal narrative as he explores themes including sexuality, migration, and displacement. de Saboia began painting and selling his work online at an early age. In 2019, Brazil’s FAMA Museum mounted de Saboia’s first solo museum exhibition. Many of de Saboia’s notable works feature the prominent outline of a central face or figure tangled amidst various other intricate patterns and shapes. The interconnected layers found throughout de Saboia’s work mimic the complex intersections which permeate and shape our society today.

Started in Firenze during a three months residence, this piece has as the center one of Samuel’s persona. The Magician is the card of the tarot of live creativity, ideas and the embodiment of magic into physicality. Being a nomad Samuel moves both life and work on the current of energies, he says that this piece is what happens when you are dancing and a bag full of sun explodes. The tracing happened while dancing on his studio and from there the creatures showed on different moments of its creation as invitees for the dance floor.