lives between Rio de Janeiro and Paris. Rodrigo is a reference within Brazilian contemporary art, for its radical interrogation of the animal and natural dimensions of human existence. The inscription of his own body in literally natural contexts, in scenes of representation that develop in between the animal and the human, the natural and the cultural, the density of matter, and the symbolic dimension of his work make it, through photography, video and performance, a set capable of illuminating, through art, one of the most compelling and urgent aesthetic and political discussions of our time.