Manu Neves is portuguese, born in Mozambique and lives in Rio de Janeiro since he was 7 years old. He studied at EAV-Parque Lage, has a degree in Visual Arts from UERJ and is currently pursuing his master's degree in Art, Experience and Language at the same university. Since 2014 he has been presenting his works in collective exhibitions and art festivals. Her artistic production has an installation nature but is crossed by other platforms and uses various techniques. In his research, he investigates the processes of ruin in cities, drawing inspiration from the resistance tactics of nature and the strategies of weeds that emerge in the gaps of the urban skin to propose and provoke questions about the processes of ordering and control in contemporary societies.