Post by João Paglione

THE CURIOUS CURATOR: PART I Raphael DE VASCONCELLOS In September 2024, I sold my company KURIOSIS . The thing I’d built for years was suddenly gone and instead of relief, I felt completely lost. No structure, no next move, just a quiet apartment and the question nobody warns you about: ... now what? So I did the only thing that felt true. I took €10,000 and bought unnecessary camera equipment, booked a car, and drove from Berlin, Germany to Champagne, France. I wenr to see my friend Raphael de Vasconcellos who had just started a business as a wine tour operator. Raphael and I met 26 years ago. He’s a father, a husband, a beautiful eccentric ... born in Rio de Janeiro, descended from a French military chemist, and now an officially licensed Guide-Conférencier walking people through Reims Cathedral and the battlefields of the Marne. He turned his whole tangled history into something he gets to share every single day. Watching him work, it clicked. The dream wasn’t a business. It was what I always did ... traveling, meeting people who built lives that don’t fit in a box, and showing the world what they can do. That’s what I’m doing now at this moment in life. If you’ve ever stood in the rubble of something you finished and felt lost — good. Be glad you f@cked-up. That’s not the end of the story. That’s the part right before it gets interesting. Where would you go first when you are lost? 👇

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