LABÔ YOUNG

Sonho de Folha (Leaf Dream)

2025

Single-channel video, colour

Duration: 1 min 30 sec

 

Labô Young’s practice moves fluidly between fashion, performance and visual art. Working with ephemeral materials such as leaves, seeds, flowers and sticks, gathered from the rainforest and his own backyard in Pará, he hand-weaves sculptural garments that are as poetic and powerful as they are transient.

 

This video captures his organic artefacts in motion, a performance rooted in memory, ancestry and territoriality. Drawing on his childhood experiences, memories of the river and the people who live in this area of the Amazon, and ancestral weaving techniques, Young transforms elements of nature into body, gesture and music.

 

Named a New Wave: Creative by the British Fashion Council in 2020, Young continues to expand the boundaries of art, fashion and sustainability, telling deeply personal stories from

the Amazon.

 

Video: Labô Young, Rayssa Cardoso, Luciano Catanhede

Performance: Cayssa Cardoso, Labô Young

Photography: Gareth Jones

Video editing: Lu Peixe

 

Courtesy of the artist