INSOMNIA is the name under which the Italian Brazilian duo, composed of Thiago Dezan and Infinite, present their collaborative work. Born in New York in 2019, this experimental project connects their respective practices — documentary photography and videography and visual arts — enabling a vision that reflects with poetic sensitivity and sorrow on the fractures of our world.
The exhibition “Bad Trips and Broken Promises / Even Flowers Must Die”, presented at PAC in fall 2025, confronts the urgent and painful aspects of our society through a critical and political lens. It interrogates how culture itself operates as an institution, one that too often legitimizes oppression and repression in the eyes of individuals. The works span photography, painting, and video installation. Brutally raw images—many originally created for journalistic purposes—take on a new dimension, evoking the unspeakable, the neglected, and the lingering residue of what is endured. These pieces document reality with powerful immediacy, while also capturing the restless, instinctual responses of the mind as it struggles to comprehend it.
The project reveals what remains unseen, what haunts us and keeps us awake at night, it’s not about daydreams, but about insomnia. INSOMNIA has exhibited internationally including: “Desse Lado Do Muro”, Museu da Imagem do Som do Paranà, Farpa; “Machine Wreckers: 20 act in a day” Spazio Punch, Venice (2025); “GANRA”, touring exhibition, Japan (2024); “Insomnia, Where the Truth Lies x Thiago Dezan”, 3rd Ethos Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, (2021); “In A Time Of Change”, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, (2021).
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Thiago Dezan, born in Brazil in 1990, is a multimedia artist and photographer. Member of Farpa agency. As a freelancer, Dezan has produced content for The Washington Post, AJ+, The New York Times, The Intercept, and Popular Front. He worked for at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, DC. In 2021, Dezan published his first photo book, When I Hear That Trumpet Sound, now in the permanent photo book archive of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome. In 2025, he published On This Side of the Wall, a collaborative book with Farpa Agency that documents the prison system in Latin America.
Infinite, born in Italy in 1993, has a diverse and articulate artistic practice shaped by the squatting movement in Northern Italy. His work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as AIR Gallery, New York; Project For Empty Space, Newark; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; Super+Centercourt, Munich; Lankay Gallery/Luxun Academy, Anshan; Chelsea Gallery, New York; Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver; Mattatoio and Short Theatre in Rome. His murals can be seen across several countries, including Palestine, Colombia, the United States, Peru, Chile, the United Kingdom, Spain among others.
