João Pedro Amorim Páscoa Borher, or just Páscoa, is a Brazilian multidisciplinary artist, curator and researcher currently based in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
They were born in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) but emigrated and were raised abroad from the age of 3. Their family and them lived between Geneva (Switzerland) and Rio. The contrasts between their livelihood and that of their peers, both in Brazil and Switzerland, always fascinated them
Their research based artistic practice is a tool of dialogue between their relatives, their country, the communities they are part of and themselves. They inhabit an intersection of languages, cultures, and continents and believe that their work is a means to identify dynamics between Europe and Latin America, whilst reflecting on what it means to be foreign.
They are interested in cultural syncretisms, how they shape global (internet) cultures, how the latter applies itself in different localities and how this shapes Images beyond the literal sense. They often work with various forms of archival material (found images, municipal archives, family archives, personal archives…) and varied analogue media (clay, metal, analogue photography…).
As a curator, their focus is on making the works of Brazilian artists, researchers, scholars... accessible to a foreign audience either through their online archival project; Pé Sujo; or events.
