Dandara Catete is an artist whose work explores intimacy, domestic space, and everyday objects through an approach that connects the poetic with the political. Her practice addresses themes such as the right to housing, affective architecture, and gender issues, using sculpture and other visual disciplines to investigate the relationships between bodies, spaces, and the hidden histories of daily life.

During her residency in Arévalo, the artist focused on the city’s historic wall, of which only fragments remain. Most of its stones were dismantled and repurposed in the construction of factories and warehouses. Drawing on the concept of spolia, the artist seeks to poetically recover the memory of the wall through interventions on canvas, exploring how these lost structures might have interacted with the city’s present-day urban landscape.

The result is two large-scale canvases titled Remiendos, which poetically reimagine the vanished sections of the wall at the barbacana and the Rincón del Diablo. For a time, these two works were displayed in public spaces, temporarily restoring to Arévalo those missing fragments of its wall. This action continues Catete’s ongoing exploration of the reciprocal relationship between architecture and the communities that inhabit it.

Dandara Catete (Rio de Janeiro, 1992) holds a degree in Visual Arts–Sculpture from Wesleyan University (USA) and has taken part in international residencies such as Cittadellarte (Italy) and the Salzburger Kunstverein (Austria). Her work has been shown in exhibitions in Brazil, the United States, and Spain.