Felipe de Ávila Franco

Organizaciones con obra

HAM Helsinki Art Museum

Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art

Museu de Arte Brasileira (MAB-FAAP)

Descripción del Artista

BIO Felipe de Ávila Franco (b. 1982) is a Brazilian visual artist who has been based in Finland since 2013. His work explores the intersection of sculpture and other art forms, delving into themes of biopolitics and environmental aesthetics. Through different blends of traditional and experimental techniques, his process incorporates industrial materials, residues and substances  that allow his work to contrast and question notions of nature, energy, territory, and the human body. Grounded on concepts of materiality, his work expresses concern the industrial dystopia of our current times, casting sculpture as a practice capable of materializing temporalities and dimensions that reflect on the encounter between the scales of the human, the nonhuman, and the planet. The artist addresses the artistic process as an instrument to awaken new perspectives of knowledge, establishing interdisciplinary links between humanities, natural sciences and ancient cosmologies. Throwing a critical look over topics regarding the socio-environmental emergency that characterises our times, his work aims at evoking art as a mechanism to activate a deeper discussion on the conflicting relationship between human society and the natural environment, highlighting those as interdependent entities. Currently, the artist works based in Helsinki and his work has been displayed in South America, Europe and United States. His works integrate distinct collections such as the Museum of Brazilian Art FAAP, in São Paulo, the Helsinki Arts Museum HAM, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, in Helsinki.

Galería de Obra de Felipe de Ávila Franco (4 Obras)

Escultura, Instalación

Ode to Anthropocene (2016)

Fotografía, Artes gráficas, Instalación

Reflexive Landscapes (2021)

Escultura, Instalación, Objeto Artístico

The Trillionth Tonne (2022)

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Exposiciones en las que ha participado como artista

Subterranean

Colectiva

How to Postpone the End

Individual

2 exposiciones