Cássio Markowski’s (Brasil, 1972) work, particularly his recent series “Plantation”, presents a complex narrative that intertwines personal memory, cultural history, and ancestral identity. Markowski’s extensive references to Afro-Brazilian traditions and syncretic iconography create a visual dialogue between historical realities, collective trauma, and autobiographical experience. Informed by a Yoruba worldview, which understands time as cyclical rather than linear, the “Plantation” series explores creation, destruction, and renewal. His drawings reflect the impermanence of cultural memory, as past and present fold into one another, revealing the continuous transformation of identity and history. Markowski’s works, rich in references to historical archives and family histories, offer a space where the past reasserts itself in the present, revealing the fluidity of cultural evolution.