Ludimila Lima is inspired by the stories of her ancestors’ struggle and the everyday experiences of Bahia. A multidisciplinary artist and researcher, she sees her art as a form of expression and (re)existence. With watercolor, acrylic and clay, the artist externalizes what her body and senses capture from the world around her, building a particular poetic universe in which water and earth meet and give shape to the memories, affections and experiences that run through her existence.

In 2023, she held her first solo exhibition in Cruz das Almas, Bahia, at the Casa da Cultura Galeno D’Avelírio, with a tour of the Galeria Hansen Bahia Museum in Cachoeira. In 2024, she took part in the exhibitions Memórias para Dona Antônia (Acervo da Laje – Salvador), Raízes: Começo, Meio, Começo (Museu Nacional da Cultura Afro-Brasileira – MUNCAB) and Confluências e Fabulações Líquidas (Museu de Arte Moderna – MAM/BA). In the same year, he held an artistic mobility and solo exhibition at the Guimarães Rosa Institute in Maputo, Mozambique. In 2025, he took part in the exhibition Visual Rhythms: A Journey through the History of Micareme, at Sesc in Feira de Santana – BA.

Visual artist and researcher Victor Mota was born and works in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, where he is doing his master’s degree in the Postgraduate Program in Visual Arts at the UFBA School of Fine Arts. At the crossroads between photography, video and performance, the artist finds the core of his research, which revolves around urban poetics and informational narratives of territory, through virtual images from Google Street View. The street, progress and technology – both in the sense of digital and ancestral technologies – run through his productions.

He was one of the artists featured in the exhibition “Raízes – Começo, Meio e Começo”, at the National Museum of Afro-Brazilian Culture (Muncab), in Salvador, with the work “˜Paisagens Mapeadas’, in which he carries out a poetic investigation, through digital collages, into the tensions between the urban landscape and its digitalization. The video production “Pele Manchada” (2020) was shown at the 7th Bahian Film Festival (FECIBA) and the 14th Zózimo Bulbul Black Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro.

Photo: Watson Guimarães

The Circuito de Arte was founded in 2024 in the Dois de Julho neighborhood of Salvador, created by local visual artists Milena Ferreira and Busca to address the lack of public and private spaces and initiatives in the city’s current visual arts scene. It offers an inclusive and accessible experience within the visual arts field, bringing it into the everyday context of bars, aiming for less rigid interactions and recognizing that Art is bigger than the space in which it is exhibited. Each edition of the circuit takes place in a single day in Dois de Julho, a central and historic neighborhood in Salvador. Ten bars are transformed into exhibition spaces/studios, with each artist given a table to present their work, showcasing the diversity and plurality of Bahia’s artistic production.

Photo: Bruna Gidi