Weber reinforces his close relationship with his community through a display of portraits and objects that allude to Cinco Bocas FC, the youth football team he set up (who meet at the 5 Bocas gallery he also founded), and to the artist’s Christian evangelical Pentecostal upbringing.
Drawing on his stint as a food delivery driver in Rio during Covid, Allan Weber riffs on life in the favela where he was born, lives and works.
Multidisciplinary Brazilian artist Allan Weber was born in 1992 in the 5 Bocas favela in the northern zone of Rio de Janeiro.
5 Bocas, where Weber still lives and works, informs his art in a mythical and literal sense.
Weber worked as a food delivery driver during the pandemic to help support his art practice, and ideas about commerce, service, social class and labour run throughout this show.
