Gê Viana was born in Santa Luzia, Maranhão, in 1986 and now she lives and works in São Luís. She graduated in Visual Arts at the Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA). The artist produces collages and photomontages, analogue and digital, inspired by life events family and everyday life, confronting the hegemonic colonizing culture and the art and communication systems.
From a meeting with Lívia Aquino, a researcher in the field of visual arts, Gê Viana starts to make use of the ‘precarious image’ and the means of appropriating historical photographs. About her production, she comments: “Creating a path in art today starts from the idea of denunciation, making use of aesthetic categories. I think of the legacy left by photographers who denounced the daily life of large metropolises, ghettos and native people through their clicks. The file images I bring still carry a historical trauma of our people, so I thought of a way of bringing other narratives that work happier possibilities, because I feel that our happiness is at risk.”
Gê Viana was a resident of Bolsa Pampulha between 2018 and 2019. In 2020, she won the PIPA Award, being a member of the Nomination Committee for the award the following year.