Finalists – Picto Fashion Photography Award 2026 : oDE

Ode Hilaire, born in 1998, is a Brazilian multidisciplinary artist working across filmmaking, styling, writing, and curatorial practice. Her work explores self-representation as a way to challenge Eurocentric notions of identity through transcorporeality, Afro-Brazilian spirituality, memory, and transformation. Her photobooks and films, including A Rose and A Prayer (2022), Divina (2022), and CARRANCA (2025), combine human figures, deities, and Afro-surreal narratives. Her work has been exhibited at the MEP, Instituto Moreira Salles, Lafayette Anticipations, ICA London, Photo London, and SP-Arte. She founded the platform Dúdús (2016–2019) and curated several exhibitions on Afro-diasporic art. Her projects have appeared in Vogue, Dazed, ArtReview, and Harper’s Bazaar, and she collaborates with Comme des Garçons, Jean Paul Gaultier, and COLORSxSTUDIOS.

CARRANCA draws on the eponymous sculptures, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures meant to ward off evil spirits, also symbolizing Afro-Brazilian religions like Candomblé. The project references Exu, the orisha mediating between material and spiritual worlds, associated with movement and the creation of possibilities. Inspired by ancient Egypt and Yoruba culture, the carrancas’ physiognomy blends human and animal traits, reminiscent of pre-dynastic Egyptian gods. The palette—black, red, indigo, and white—evokes these traditions and Brazilian popular representations of Exu. Using Afro-surrealism as a conceptual framework, the series visually narrates Urias’ eponymous album, with each photograph corresponding to a track, exploring transcorporeality and how reclaiming divine and ancestral figures can serve as a tool for liberating oneself from Eurocentric identity norms.

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