Third residency cycle: Diedrick Brackens at Casa Onze
Between June and August 2026, Casa Onze welcomes artist Diedrick Brackens for the third cycle of its residency program. For the first time, the cycle takes an itinerant format: a journey through São Paulo, Salvador, and Rio de Janeiro, turning the movement between cities into part of the artist's own creative process.
For this third cycle, the collaboration between Casa Onze and Dobra* proposes an environment designed to hold the artist's research process, bringing art, design, and architecture together as parts of a single experience. Rather than an exhibition space, the proposal is to offer a place of stay and work, where the house adapts to the artist's process, and not the other way around.
Born in Mexia, Texas (1989), and based in Los Angeles, Diedrick Brackens works primarily through tapestry, drawing on West African weaving, European techniques, and the quilting traditions of the American South in hand-dyed works where bodies and mythic figures compose narratives about memory, Black identity, and affection. Throughout the journey across São Paulo, Salvador, and Rio de Janeiro, this body of references enters into dialogue with the histories, rituals, and colors of Brazil, feeding into his ongoing research.