Nast is a Brazilian artist who has had a keen interest in urban art since his teenage years.
When he moved to São Paulo, he found it to be a teeming hotspot of the graffiti movement
where painted walls kept flourishing all over the dilapidated neighbourhoods of the vast
metropolis. After studying graphic art, he worked as a freelancer and developed a passion
for the origins and contruction of Brazilian cultural identity. Heavily influenced by Afro-
indigenous culture, his murals pay tribute to the symbols and rituals of that civilization he
means to defend. His portraits are the testimony of his love for an ancestral culture where
the numerous rituals are still relevant even in the midst of an art movement in a state of
permanent transition.