Rafael Kamada (b. 1993) currently lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. Kamada’s paintings offer no clear point of entry – their strength lies not in depiction but in atmosphere, in how they evoke a remnant of landscape, a momentary bloom, or the shadow of structure dissolving in light. Through a slow, layered process of application, removal, and reapplication, Kamada builds surfaces that carry the weight of time while remaining open to disruption, evoking traces of the natural world that blur the boundary between figuration and abstraction. Kamada works primarily at night and without preparatory sketches, combining instinct and inquiry, guided by a quiet rigor.