https://palomapassetto.com Paloma Passetto Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:27:25 +0000 https://palomapassetto.com en https://palomapassetto.com/Home Mon, 27 Mar 2023 20:26:51 +0000 Paloma Passetto https://palomapassetto.com/Home Paloma Passetto de Souza https://palomapassetto.com/About Mon, 27 Mar 2023 20:26:51 +0000 Paloma Passetto https://palomapassetto.com/About About Paloma Passetto is a Brazilian artist based in London. She holds a Master’s degree in Photography from the Royal College of Art. Passetto de Souza works across analogue photography, moving image, sculpture, performance, and other media to explore themes of identity, belonging, and political resistance. Informed by Latin American decolonial theory, her practice investigates how communities shaped by modernity/coloniality resist Western domination through epistemic disobedience and the honouring of ancestral knowledge. Contact palomapassetto@gmail.com Exhibitions 2026- (Not) Food Porn: From Feed to Culture, online exhibition at Der Greif. 2026- Muda, group exhibition at Somers Gallery, London, UK. Exhibiting and curating.2026- Time, Well Spent, group exhibition with Grafters Collective at ACME studios, London, UK.2026- Subject to Disruption, group show at Aspex. Portsmouth, UK. 2025- Southwark Park Galleries annual open, London, UK. 2025- Art &amp; Humanities public exhibition, Royal College of Art, London, UK. 2025- Der Greif Pictures on a Journey interactive installation at Various Others festival, Munich, Germany. 2025- Unfinished, group exhibition at Royal College of Art. London, UK. 2025- B&amp;W Athens Photo Festival exhibition. Athens, Greece. 2024- Cartão de Visitas, solo show by Coletivo Passetto. Tabapuã, São Paulo, Brazil. Awards/prizes 2025- Portrait of Britain, British Journal of photography, winner. UK.2025- Taylor Wessing Prize, National Portrait Gallery, shortlisted. UK. 2025- New Photography Prize 2025, winner. Royal College of Art, UK.2025- Paris Photo Carte Blanche, finalist. France. 2025- Aspire bursary winner, Aspex Portsmouth, UK. 2024- Paulo Gustavo award, winner. Brazil.Publications 2026- Clast Magazine.2026- Ají Vol. II- Unbounded Lines magazine. 2026- Featured on Portrait of Britain Vl.8, by the British Journal of Photography. 2025- Love the Elephant, Hate Gentrification. Flipbook printed on Risograph, self published. Exhibited at Offprint fair 2025 at Tate Modern and Index fair 2026 in Mexico City. 2026- Featured on Ají Vol. II by Ají Press. London, UK. https://palomapassetto.com/Entities Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:27:25 +0000 Paloma Passetto https://palomapassetto.com/Entities Entities, 2026 <img width="3438" height="4522" width_o="3438" height_o="4522" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/99bbff5d99f4fb39a3eb6800ac01e998858a3c20f0cea2cbb3649e653e0a5a54/2P0A1137-copy-2.jpg" data-mid="249781826" border="0" data-scale="53" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/99bbff5d99f4fb39a3eb6800ac01e998858a3c20f0cea2cbb3649e653e0a5a54/2P0A1137-copy-2.jpg" />‘Muda’ group exhibition at Somers Gallery, 2026. <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c21ccaac7185c7a1808113848a99632c985f866f3be0a53c3c46ff89fba53471/2P0A1363-copy.jpg" data-mid="249780867" border="0" data-scale="54" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c21ccaac7185c7a1808113848a99632c985f866f3be0a53c3c46ff89fba53471/2P0A1363-copy.jpg" /> <img width="3543" height="4385" width_o="3543" height_o="4385" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b03475004bfea2be9ecf79139f6357e2e8fdc3560057638b9bc6a0733378961d/Entity-I-copy.jpg" data-mid="249780961" border="0" data-scale="37" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b03475004bfea2be9ecf79139f6357e2e8fdc3560057638b9bc6a0733378961d/Entity-I-copy.jpg" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="3543" height="4470" width_o="3543" height_o="4470" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9aaa7e5ada03579d7798a8d54fec9a572b1588726bd5ed7c66ec3f1025c46611/Entity-II-copy.jpg" data-mid="249780962" border="0" data-scale="36" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9aaa7e5ada03579d7798a8d54fec9a572b1588726bd5ed7c66ec3f1025c46611/Entity-II-copy.jpg" /> https://palomapassetto.com/Macumba-Recipes-2025 Tue, 20 Jan 2026 01:21:27 +0000 Paloma Passetto https://palomapassetto.com/Macumba-Recipes-2025 Macumba Recipes, 2025 Macumba Recipes is a ritual-based work shaped in collaboration with a medium from an Umbanda temple, where offerings are crafted for four reparatory invocations: ancestral reparation, the reclaiming of epistemic agency, the healing of systemic wounds, and the restoration of land and its prosperity. Rooted in the wisdom of Afro-Brazilian spirituality, the work draws from the syncretic currents of the Orixás and spiritual figures incorporated through colonial contact, and is nourished by indigenous botanical knowledge. Each offering becomes a gesture of reverence, aligned with the nature of the wish and dedicated to an entity or Orixá whose presence resonates with its intent. I invite you to recreate this offering and participate in a collective ancestral healing. <img width="1772" height="2180" width_o="1772" height_o="2180" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/395ca929f5130bbeb0fab621320c6fc00622cc412b374e6a49da9cd0af513859/Ancestral-Reparation-low.jpg" data-mid="243585680" border="0" data-scale="49" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/395ca929f5130bbeb0fab621320c6fc00622cc412b374e6a49da9cd0af513859/Ancestral-Reparation-low.jpg" /> <img width="2405" height="3000" width_o="2405" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/407ea8430215d95a757f816c7780a6f6f0322d760a71e883471eef8c9809ff72/Healing-of-Systemic-Wounds_l-.jpg" data-mid="243585681" border="0" data-scale="49" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/407ea8430215d95a757f816c7780a6f6f0322d760a71e883471eef8c9809ff72/Healing-of-Systemic-Wounds_l-.jpg" /> <img width="2603" height="3000" width_o="2603" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ccfe43bbb8d7feecb40d07276a88027d6c2e8da51e099ab6036c8d44374c9ff8/Macumba-recipes_Land-Reclamation-and-Prosperity_l.jpg" data-mid="243585682" border="0" data-scale="49" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ccfe43bbb8d7feecb40d07276a88027d6c2e8da51e099ab6036c8d44374c9ff8/Macumba-recipes_Land-Reclamation-and-Prosperity_l.jpg" /> <img width="2389" height="3000" width_o="2389" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d3c2e9c774e3ad2d16302ce28733c41f99c6c3da8650bc8cf43f48a17c32ff58/Reclamation-of-Epistemic-Agency_l.jpg" data-mid="243585683" border="0" data-scale="49" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d3c2e9c774e3ad2d16302ce28733c41f99c6c3da8650bc8cf43f48a17c32ff58/Reclamation-of-Epistemic-Agency_l.jpg" /> <img width="1776" height="2500" width_o="1776" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/061e6a70d6ebe552ae68eb4e82491837801c1690a34ef44f3e0d3c8e7dfef316/A5-Flyer-Ancestral-Reparation-low.jpg" data-mid="243585684" border="0" data-scale="39" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/061e6a70d6ebe552ae68eb4e82491837801c1690a34ef44f3e0d3c8e7dfef316/A5-Flyer-Ancestral-Reparation-low.jpg" />&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<img width="1774" height="2498" width_o="1774" height_o="2498" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/623ea77f71ad6528cb8a7f9cb377f448503802fa85def9098d14148c1764658a/A5-Flyer-Healing-of-systemic-wounds_low.jpg" data-mid="243585752" border="0" data-scale="39" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/623ea77f71ad6528cb8a7f9cb377f448503802fa85def9098d14148c1764658a/A5-Flyer-Healing-of-systemic-wounds_low.jpg" /> Macumba recipe cards <img width="3648" height="5472" width_o="3648" height_o="5472" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ba31cfbae18de4d36143be2431dc6a2f9be49a2022aeaa4e3f36bbf92726b082/4E1A9598.JPG" data-mid="243585686" border="0" data-scale="48" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ba31cfbae18de4d36143be2431dc6a2f9be49a2022aeaa4e3f36bbf92726b082/4E1A9598.JPG" /> Installation view https://palomapassetto.com/Holy-Paredoilia Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:34:08 +0000 Paloma Passetto https://palomapassetto.com/Holy-Paredoilia Holy Paredoilia, 2024The creation of these objects reflects the deep religious syncretism present in Latin America, showcasing its cultural pluralism and diverse influences. Holy Pareidolia explores the tendency of the faithful to perceive holy apparitions in everyday objects and to cherish them as talismanic artefacts. <img width="1181" height="876" width_o="1181" height_o="876" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/322d11d3db82ee06372674168fb15d511d379a1fce28a562c0dfe741b698c0ac/Holy-Pareidolia-dyptique-low.jpg" data-mid="243584985" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/322d11d3db82ee06372674168fb15d511d379a1fce28a562c0dfe741b698c0ac/Holy-Pareidolia-dyptique-low.jpg" /> UV print on bread https://palomapassetto.com/Fruit-pinhol Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:23:45 +0000 Paloma Passetto https://palomapassetto.com/Fruit-pinhol Fruit Pinholes, 2024Images of fruits were used as a colonial trope to portray the Caribbean islands as a perfect paradise to be exploited, often appearing in postcards. By transforming tropical fruits—primarily imported from the Global South to the UK—into pinhole cameras, the gaze is subverted, and the exotic commodity becomes the agent, representing the reclamation of agency by the exoticised and fetishised. <img width="1181" height="959" width_o="1181" height_o="959" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0abfdd74ea08dd70f82a0b4e47c39fd844d5a6a0e340b807373efdb26e667dc/fruit-pinholes-004-low-2.jpg" data-mid="243584945" border="0" data-scale="59" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f0abfdd74ea08dd70f82a0b4e47c39fd844d5a6a0e340b807373efdb26e667dc/fruit-pinholes-004-low-2.jpg" />&nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="2126" height="2295" width_o="2126" height_o="2295" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0c4df258f1bffb2012b99630335c3d2ef7d7364f1c6fcae156a34bd23ad17e51/Mask.jpg" data-mid="243584942" border="0" data-scale="35" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0c4df258f1bffb2012b99630335c3d2ef7d7364f1c6fcae156a34bd23ad17e51/Mask.jpg" /> https://palomapassetto.com/But-the-Skin-of-the-Earth-is-Seamless Mon, 19 Jan 2026 01:05:13 +0000 Paloma Passetto https://palomapassetto.com/But-the-Skin-of-the-Earth-is-Seamless But the Skin of the Earth is Seamless, 2025‘But the Skin of the Earth is Seamless’ is a series in which I sculpt mountainous forms from powdered Latin American food staples—such as cassava and purple corn flour—and photograph them using William Gilpin’s 18th-century principles of the picturesque, which advocate rearranging or improving nature to produce an idealised landscape. The work explores Krista A. Thompson's concept of tropicalization and colonial extractivism as intertwined tools of imperial control over nature and the other.The collage with labels mascots—often feminised and sourced from the materials used—examine the relationship between commercial iconography and their historical legacies. <img width="1772" height="1707" width_o="1772" height_o="1707" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d65e867762662f8534042ad0c2654cd0e4d126efb28d471adf6dd66724096ab4/Landscape-I-collage-low.jpg" data-mid="243504250" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d65e867762662f8534042ad0c2654cd0e4d126efb28d471adf6dd66724096ab4/Landscape-I-collage-low.jpg" /> <img width="3283" height="3283" width_o="3283" height_o="3283" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e399981f76c1782f80fa7fe44dc55b49ab331b08431def4cf96514cdd7568da0/001.jpg" data-mid="243586184" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e399981f76c1782f80fa7fe44dc55b49ab331b08431def4cf96514cdd7568da0/001.jpg" /> <img width="800" height="1027" width_o="800" height_o="1027" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b5a63a28169312ef76b7db876e804f215a12b363f1a682f99d3ced64efea3837/ezgif.com-speed.gif" data-mid="249781767" border="0" data-scale="55" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/b5a63a28169312ef76b7db876e804f215a12b363f1a682f99d3ced64efea3837/ezgif.com-speed.gif" /> ‘Subject to Disruption’ group exhibition at Aspex Galley, Portsmouth, UK. 2026. <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a4d0bf0fc6ca0865274949befa8abc8e18a57c4086521db9411d86abba444c6/2P0A0552-copy.jpg" data-mid="249781751" border="0" data-scale="59" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2a4d0bf0fc6ca0865274949befa8abc8e18a57c4086521db9411d86abba444c6/2P0A0552-copy.jpg" />&nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/96cba9b589445598341caed337530b39422a43260667a1390de63a3b7cc8daf7/2P0A0561-copy.jpg" data-mid="249781753" border="0" data-scale="26" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/96cba9b589445598341caed337530b39422a43260667a1390de63a3b7cc8daf7/2P0A0561-copy.jpg" /> <img width="3704" height="5557" width_o="3704" height_o="5557" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/890b939112e660e39c51e6b55fab621ddb2283c06f8f2a0fc08114c729ce5245/2P0A0062-copy-2.jpg" data-mid="249780847" border="0" data-scale="58" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/890b939112e660e39c51e6b55fab621ddb2283c06f8f2a0fc08114c729ce5245/2P0A0062-copy-2.jpg" /> ‘A System at Scale’ group exhibition at Three Rooms Gallery, London. 2026. <img width="2144" height="2680" width_o="2144" height_o="2680" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6eb452b0058031a8325d8e06390ebe17c163d6b1881ebe583ecda5887b1a3d4e/2P0A0029_insta.jpg" data-mid="249780844" border="0" data-scale="37" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6eb452b0058031a8325d8e06390ebe17c163d6b1881ebe583ecda5887b1a3d4e/2P0A0029_insta.jpg" />&nbsp;&nbsp;<img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/190253d1f45cdd09ec25247cd365fbb25cf8963b5e19606ec7f231af79d73085/2P0A0035-copy.jpg" data-mid="249780845" border="0" data-scale="31" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/190253d1f45cdd09ec25247cd365fbb25cf8963b5e19606ec7f231af79d73085/2P0A0035-copy.jpg" /> https://palomapassetto.com/Museum-Offering Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:56:30 +0000 Paloma Passetto https://palomapassetto.com/Museum-Offering Museum Offerings, 2024 ongoingMuseum Offerings, 2025 In this project, I seek to reactivate the original functionality of the Pre-Columbian sculptures housed in the British Museum by offering gifts to the Aztec deity figures on display. I repeatedly bring flowers and fruit, placing them on the sculptures—an action inspired by the defiant practice of the Mexica people, who continued to leave offerings for the Coatlicue statue, unearthed in Mexico City during an 18th-century excavation and subsequently reburied by Spanish authorities for inciting idolatry among Indigenous communities. Through these gestures, I momentarily restore the sculptures’ original role as objects of worship and intervene in their museum-imposed status as artefacts. <img width="1134" height="635" width_o="1134" height_o="635" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/547b5dd0c3fe06fa7cb47378dddcbc2eb6c8c854bde8e0639cf6856eb72fc66e/Still-Museum-Offering.jpg" data-mid="243504225" border="0" data-scale="83" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/547b5dd0c3fe06fa7cb47378dddcbc2eb6c8c854bde8e0639cf6856eb72fc66e/Still-Museum-Offering.jpg" /> <img width="1134" height="635" width_o="1134" height_o="635" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/21080836929300ec301ed2123fe2a8e8b2b395ac52126fbd0d0a073820fea073/Still-BM-sculptures.jpg" data-mid="243504222" border="0" data-scale="83" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/21080836929300ec301ed2123fe2a8e8b2b395ac52126fbd0d0a073820fea073/Still-BM-sculptures.jpg" /> <img width="3893" height="540" width_o="3893" height_o="540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/55b49ffc122a263b980e6ee4d9019fc361e339ab694fb0fefe5fd24d22281f0b/03b.jpg" data-mid="243504243" border="0" data-scale="84" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/55b49ffc122a263b980e6ee4d9019fc361e339ab694fb0fefe5fd24d22281f0b/03b.jpg" /> https://palomapassetto.com/Efigies-Cake Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:37:37 +0000 Paloma Passetto https://palomapassetto.com/Efigies-Cake Efigies (Cake)Installation-performance Efigies (Cake), in which a cake-photograph is shared with visitors in a colective banquet-performance. <img width="3284" height="1722" width_o="3284" height_o="1722" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c2a1c3bf4841d838d3def3e0db24102144e7eaed7ed2f86969064adb59c410a/Cake-copy.jpg" data-mid="243504041" border="0" data-scale="82" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6c2a1c3bf4841d838d3def3e0db24102144e7eaed7ed2f86969064adb59c410a/Cake-copy.jpg" /> <img width="1575" height="2362" width_o="1575" height_o="2362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1ff8b1dd261b8572afa3dff830f8ded320851694340aaa662e9744a1ff915af7/DSC07915-low.jpg" data-mid="243504065" border="0" data-scale="30" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1ff8b1dd261b8572afa3dff830f8ded320851694340aaa662e9744a1ff915af7/DSC07915-low.jpg" />&nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="1575" height="2362" width_o="1575" height_o="2362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed005df87ee91ce4367f29063f1713b0573b005418370bd749dd55050defc107/DSC07951-low.jpg" data-mid="243504114" border="0" data-scale="30" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ed005df87ee91ce4367f29063f1713b0573b005418370bd749dd55050defc107/DSC07951-low.jpg" /> <img width="5472" height="3648" width_o="5472" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/77ac1732dcb738c0498ab075ec1a327a588de85bcd20fad5b34a1891d35ae6f1/4E1A9551.JPG" data-mid="243504118" border="0" data-scale="62" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/77ac1732dcb738c0498ab075ec1a327a588de85bcd20fad5b34a1891d35ae6f1/4E1A9551.JPG" /> https://palomapassetto.com/REPLICA Sun, 26 Oct 2025 20:48:58 +0000 Paloma Passetto https://palomapassetto.com/REPLICA Replica, 2025 Exhibited at Southwark Park Gallery Anual Open 2025 bit.ly/44bY4vp The single-channel video, displayed within a loaf of bread, combines archival and newly produced images to recount the story of the Coatlicue statue. This historical narrative is interwoven with scenes showing the making of Pre-Columbian bread replicas from the British Museum’s collection, alongside images from Museum Offerings. &nbsp;<img width="3774" height="2150" width_o="3774" height_o="2150" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/04b1d33e1ed12adda43c87879ab2600ca09868c3a5cc631ec320b73f0601f24c/02b-Replica.jpg" data-mid="243494493" border="0" data-scale="83" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/04b1d33e1ed12adda43c87879ab2600ca09868c3a5cc631ec320b73f0601f24c/02b-Replica.jpg" /> Replica stills <img width="5472" height="3648" width_o="5472" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/17c15d0dd85a490506db438da5ed4bf1a59981dad629c21742748847ef6c31b5/4E1A9529.JPG" data-mid="243504841" border="0" data-scale="57" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/17c15d0dd85a490506db438da5ed4bf1a59981dad629c21742748847ef6c31b5/4E1A9529.JPG" /> Installation view RCA exhibition, 2025. <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/edef55fbf0c5a2a697e038afdb21fe3f8c6331dcf6bbb39f9e978a9b65d6c8ef/2P0A1055-copy-2.jpg" data-mid="249781778" border="0" data-scale="77" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/edef55fbf0c5a2a697e038afdb21fe3f8c6331dcf6bbb39f9e978a9b65d6c8ef/2P0A1055-copy-2.jpg" />‘Muda’ group exhibition at Somers gallery, 2026. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;