The Group of the Theater of the Oppressed Pirei na Cenna was created in 1997.

Formed for users of mental health, their family and sympatheticals of the Movement of the Antimanicomial Fight to dialogue about the pertinent questions of the universe of  madness, using the diverse languages that the Theater of the Oppressed presents. Our proposal is to discover ways to stimulate the exercise of the Citizenship by the part of the users of Mental Health, concentrating in the equality principle and in the permission of the exercise of the differences.

I knew the Pirei na Cenna Group in the SFF – Fluminense Photography Society - RJ in 2006.    
Enchanted and deeply impressed by the play and by the actors, I called the group and asked them if I could attend the assay of them in the next Saturday, in the theater of the Psychiatric Hospital Jurujuba, of Niterói.
During one year and a half I’m realizing a photographic series of the assays of this fantastic group, that will be transformed into a book in the year of  2008, with the support of the Sabin Laboratory of Brasilia.
As a photographer and as psychologist, it was and it is a joy and an honor to follow the assays of this extremely special theater group.
I have immense gratitude to all of the integrants of the Pirei for allowing me to be their audience, to learn with them and to photograph them in the privacy of their extraordinary assays.

"The most important in life is to have a plastic and supergelatinous nature!" Salvador Dali

- Series "Distortions in the intersection", made in NY in 2006.
- Other series Distortions made in Paris, Brasilia and Salvador in 2007 and in Amsterdam in 2008.

The photos of the series Distortions integrates a project in development, that I beganed in NY in January of 2006, later I did more pictures using the same technique in Paris in December of 2006 and January of 2007, in Salvador in August of 2007, Brasilia in November of 2007 and in Amsterdam in July of 2008.

I make with these photos an invitation to fluidity, to dream...

To photograph for me is as to practise my dreams still being able, later, to develop them in a slip of paper...

The lenses of the camera and the glasses of my collection, that does not stop to increase and to diminish, are for me as the countless layers of the unconscious, with its uncontrollable possibilities...

These photographs had been realized for the first time in NY during more than 40 days, from the same place, in the morning and at night, in diferent climatic conditions and in diferent conditions of lightning, over an intersection especially colored that I discovered there.

The painting effect and the impression of water draining are created by a special glass that I use to make the pictures. I don’t use photoshop effects to produce this works.