Since the 1980s he has used the cool, detached technology of video, and in the hot climate of Minas Gerais has warmed up electronic images gathered from his daily life. Not interested in the mimetic—a significant aspect of his chosen medium—he probes the poetic, deftly weaving together layers of haunting visuals and sounds. Over the years Santos has fashioned an unassuming style. This evolved partly in opposition to the rationalism and formality of Conceptualism and Minimalism of generations prior, but in concert with the lyrical abstraction of 1950s Brazil.