Mateu Velasco is a Brazilian visual artist and illustrator based in Rio de Janeiro, with a practice rooted equally in the street and the studio. Trained in Industrial Design and Graphic Design at PUC-Rio, where he completed both his undergraduate degree and his Master's, he began working professionally as an illustrator in 1999 and expanded into public mural painting in the early 2000s, developing a visual language that has since become unmistakably his own.His work draws from the accumulated debris of urban daily life: fragments of image, memory, and routine that are collected, layered, and reassembled into compositions that are at once graphic and deeply felt. The result is a kind of visual archaeology -- cutouts, overlays, and graphic structures that pull familiar things slightly out of register, making the overlooked suddenly impossible to ignore. There is a critical intelligence running through the work, and a persistent humanist concern: a pressing interest in what cities do to people, and what people quietly do within them.Each piece functions as an assemblage of fragments whose individual origins matter less than the tension they generate in combination, opening the work toward new possibilities of visual and poetic reading. The spectator is not guided through the image so much as drawn into it, invited to complete a narrative that resists resolution. He lives and works in Rio de Janeiro.