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

Visual artist and co-creator of the Circuito de Arte em Boteco (CAB), she is a master’s candidate in the Postgraduate Program in Visual Arts at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). She works and resides in Salvador, Bahia, where she investigates printmaking and its dialogue with other media, as well as exploring the aesthetics of ruin as a space of memory and belonging.

She has led a Metal Printmaking workshop at MAM-BA (2019) and has participated in various collective and solo exhibitions, as well as artist residencies. Some of her notable exhibitions include: Nova Matriz – Gravura como Pensamento (2022), Museum at Instituto Artium, São Paulo (2023), Figura Insólita at RV Cultura e Arte (2023), Gravura na Bahia at Galeria Canizares (2023), 6th Sertão Biennial at CCBN, Ceará (2023), Encruzilhadas das Arte Afro-Brasileira at CCBB, São Paulo (2023), Carolinas at Caixa Cultural, Salvador (2024), 33rd Exhibition Program at CCSP (2023/2024).

Photo by Antonio Neto.

Visual artist based in Salvador, Bahia, with a degree in Fine Arts from the Federal University of Bahia and currently pursuing a master’s degree in the Graduate Program in Visual Arts at the same institution. The artist works with objects considered “common” or “unusual in art,” often associating them directly or indirectly with words, phrases, and expressions to reinvent reality through approaches that access fiction, break logic, and embrace illusion. They have participated in exhibitions such as Nomes da Coisa, Abstrato/Abstrações, and Ocupação do Beco dos Artistas. As a co-creator of the Circuito de Arte em Boteco (CAB), they also work as an artist and project mentor.

Pablo Guardiola is an artist, curator, and co-director of Beta-Local whose practice spans sculpture, photography, and writing. His work examines how narratives are constructed and perceived, and has been exhibited in spaces such as Romer Young Gallery, El Lobi, Km 0.2, and the San Francisco Arts Commission. In Transmigração, he presents an installation of images of trees and plants from dry and humid forests of the Caribbean, arranged in dialogue with the environment of Salvador de Bahía. These photographs act as vegetal presences that cross geographies, expanding through space as a constellation of memory and landscape.

Michael D. Linares Vázquez is a visual artist, curator, and co-director of Beta-Local, whose work explores the symbolic power of objects and their potential to activate new forms of perception. His practice has been presented at venues such as LACMA, the São Paulo Biennial, the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, and Art in General. In Transmigração, his contribution unfolds through site-sensitive interventions that combine performance, drawing, and assemblage, functioning as a connective infrastructure within the exhibition. His piece La caída del alfiler proposes a sensory and affective form of communication between humans and plants.