MA Ç ARICO uses painting, writing, video, and sound to explore ideas of space and being, through a multidisciplinary approach that seeks what can be found at the core of concepts such as the individual, the body, and transitoriness. Born in Amadora, Portugal, MA Ç ARICO studied in São Miguel in 2016, and is now a painting student at the AKI Artez Fine Arts Academy. In 2020, he was part of the We never say never exhibition, which opened the VAGA cultural space, and won the Young Creators W&T Prize 2022, which led to his first solo exhibition, Jumping into Existence.