João D. Morais (1998), also known as Demobuda, is a visual artist, photographer, and audiovisual director raised in Favela do Jacó, in the urban periphery of São Paulo, Brazil. His practice spans photography, audiovisual production, and experimental processes, emerging from a sensitive observation of everyday life and the urban territories he inhabits.

 

His work investigates ephemerality, freedom, and time as narrative materials, understanding the image not only as a form of documentation but as a field of intervention, memory, and transformation. Through practices that involve documentation, collage, material manipulation of photography, and hybrid processes between analog and digital media, he constructs images that challenge the boundaries between document, gesture, and poetic experience.

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His artistic research explores photography as an expanded medium, incorporating cuts, stitching, manual interventions, and experiments with analog film and light devices. Among his authorial projects are Rabisco, an investigation in expanded photography featuring interventions in his own images displayed on lightboxes; Prataria, a photographic series created on analog film exploring light, grain, and the materiality of the image; and Caatinga, a photographic project that examines landscape, territory, and the resilience of life in Brazil’s Caatinga biome through a sensitive documentary perspective.

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He was also part of the Laboratório Audiovisual Dimaloka, a collective of visual artists dedicated to creating authorial audiovisual narratives, where collaborative and experimental processes transform production limitations into aesthetic language. He is also the founder of MOSBE (Make One Second Become Eternity), a creative collective focused on experimenting with visual and sonic languages through collaborative artistic processes.

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He currently works as Visual and Communication Coordinator at Central Music, where he develops visual strategies, photographic documentation, and audiovisual narratives related to the studio’s creative processes. He is also part of the creative core of Central Jam, a live music performance project dedicated to the independent music scene, contributing as curator, creative director, and visual director.

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His work has been cited as a reference in the Audiovisual Experimentation course of the Photography Technology program at Instituto Senac, and he has served as a guest jury member for the Rap Brasil Award and the Genius Brasil Music Award.