Tucci: Matter & Spirit
This body of work originates from 12 years of consecration to the Ayahuasca tea — a journey of listening and surrendering to the forest, an ancestral experience that unites body, nature, and consciousness. Amongst pigments, leaves, light, and sound, the exhibition proposes a dive into the sensory and spiritual dimensions of this forest medicine, through three interconnected perspectives that form a cycle between the physical, the symbolic, and the transcendent.
Botanic Engravings
In this first part, matter is revealed in its origin. The paper is pigmented with dyes extracted manually by Tucci from the leaf of the Chacrona and the bark of the Jagube, plants that together form the sacred tea. Each print is made with the concentrated tea itself, in an alchemy between the artistic gesture and the ritual. The printed leaves become living testimonies of the forest — fragments of a presence that transcends the physical.
Mirações
The leaves of the Rainha and the Jagube are digitized and transformed into animations that evoke the mirações, kaleidoscopic visions that emerge during the expansion of consciousness provoked by the tea. These pulsating images simulate the flow of the ayahuasqueira experience, where time and form dissolve, and the gaze becomes a bridge between worlds. The mirações come accompanied by synesthesia: sound acquires color, light becomes palpable, and the body seems to listen to what was previously imperceptible. It is a state in which the artist ceases to be the author and becomes a channel — witness to nature itself manifesting in patterns of light, color, and breath. The sound, created from organic recordings and ritual sounds, breathes together with the images — reverberating the pulse of the forest, the breath of the winds, the distant drum, and the silence that precedes the vision. The soundtrack is not merely accompaniment: it is the path. It leads the viewer to the same state of deep listening that accompanies the miração.
The Jiboia snake and the return to the whole
In the third part, the visual and sonic narrative connects to the presence of the Jiboia, a force that symbolizes the spirit of the forest and the continuous cycle of transformation. The work addresses death and rebirth as parts of the same process: the dissolution of the ego and the emergence of a new consciousness integrated into the whole. The skull, an element ever present in Tucci’s work, represents this passage — the point of transition between planes, where the body unravels and perception expands. During this crossing, the masculine and the feminine unite, reflecting the balance between opposites: the sun and the moon, fire and water, movement and shelter. The Jiboia guides the gaze through this process of transformation, reminding that everything is part of the same organism — nature, body, sound, and spirit.
Curated by Selkie
Daniel Tucci (b. 1973, Rio de Janeiro) has over 30 years of experience as a tattoo and visual artist. His portfolio includes national celebrities as well as international artists like Lady Caga, Cara Delevingne, and Ricky Martin, among many others.
He studied industrial design and architecture, and attended various courses at Escola de Artes Visuais in Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro. He was also featured in the catalog of Artur Fidalgo Gallery and has a plural body of work developed across mediums such as tattooing, painting, collage, sculpture, and photography.
His works have featured in several exhibitions, including two appearances at ArtRio, one of Brazil's main art fairs, which brings together leading galleries from Brazil and around the world.
Tucci also joined the Rio Art Residency in 2024, which marked his debut as an NFT artist.
• 13 pieces in total - 8 botanic engravings and 5 animations
• Physical prints of botanic engravings claimable (+ shipping costs)
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