FLAVIO CURY
Holophrase:
REVOLT
Revolt: get lost within yourself in a magma of feelings that potentiate movements of change. An intimate revolt, therefore a collective revolt and perhaps, a revolution.
Holophrase:
DESEXISTIR
Des: a latin prefix that indicates separation, negation or a contrary action. The verb “desexistir” (to ‘unexist’) does not appear in the Portuguese, English …
RADIANCE
Radiance: light or heat as emitted or reflected by something.
The sculpture consists of two wax pieces, white and blue. Both melt…
KORRUPT
The work is a reflexion about corruption, and how it can be closely related to a circuit of affections…
Mallarmix
"Mallarmix" is a group of 20 video animations that mixes Artificial Intelligence and poems of Stéphane Mallarmé. Instead of glorifying …
VIRTUAL REALITY: "THE SLEEP OF REASON PRODUCES MONSTERS"
"The sleep of reason produces monsters" (El sueño de la razon produce monstruos) is one the most representatives etchings of Francisco…
GEOGRAPHICAL FICTION
Installation
He arrives in that region of hunger and misery. The train line is the border that divides two worlds, two states: the civil world, and that of the forgotten. So ab...
DESEXISITIR
Installation
At the beginning of 2017, a group of MFA (Master of Fine Arts) students from ZHdK - Zürcher Hochschule der Künste traveled to Greece and Lebanon.…
TRANSLITERATIONS
Drawings
Transliteration is the process of transcribing the writing of one alphabet into another, for example the Cyrillic alphabet of Russian, into the latin…
WAVES
Drawings
the ten courts of hell
Linotype
"Ten Courts of Hell" is a series of linocuts based on Haw Par Villa park, in Singapore. The work was produced…
THE MAN WITH NO FACE
Video
Based upon the novel "TheLand at the End of the world" ("Os Cús de Judas") written by the Portuguese writer António Lobo Antunes, the video juxtaposes…
RESTOS TORTOS
CROOKED RESTS
Video
Hands move fast, willing to communicate. They play a false sign language, and build a false discourse.
This visual abstraction and discursive…
WE, THE RICH
Installation
How to talk about economical and social inequalities? In this work, a container - an element that crosses the globe transporting goods - is seen as…
LUCA BY LUCA BY LUCA
Sound installation
The poem "Passionnément" de Ghérasim Luca occupies the empty space of an internal hall at ZHdK - Zücher Hochschule der Künste.
ZHdK
Sound installation
ZHdK - Zürcher Hochschule der Künste is one of the most prominent art schools in Europe, thanks to the quality of its program, but also to its impressive…
PAISAGEM
Installation/ Video
The video "Paisagem" (Landscape) comes from my desire to give visual form to a fragment of “The Book of Disquiet” by Fernando Pessoa…
I, UNSUSTAINED
Installation/ Video
Any constructed habitation can be seen as a metaphor for the body, for thoughts and convictions. On the video, a hut burning down increasingly reveals its…
ANAGRAMS
Installation
An anagram is the rearrangement of the letters of a word, name, phrase, sentence, title, or the like into another word or phrase. All the letters must be…
ALL THE COLORS SURROUND THE CENTRAL SUN
Installation/ Video
The title "All colors surround the central sun" (Todas as cores redeiam o sol central) is a fragment of the book "Galaxies" written by Haroldo de…
CAGE
Installation/ Video
An owl turns its head in different directions, as if harking for a sound moving from one end to another. With time, the movement of the sound…
VEINS
Installation/ Video
BLANC SUR BLANC
Video Installation
"Race". Class. Gender politics. Clichés.
The video installation discusses the cliché image of 'Brazilianity'. I show an image and a counter-image of one of…
TUDO ISSO
Video
A video about a carnival costume contest, seen as a metaphor of the absurdity and disguised cruelty of Brazilian society.
SKAGEN
Photography
The register of my errancy.
Analogue photos of Skagen, the northernmost point of Denmark.
THEATER/ LIVE PERFORMANCE
WINTERREISE
Video/ Live Performance
Franz Schubert’s “Winterreise”, based on poems by Wilhelm Müller, recounts a solitary man’s journey through stunning winter landscapes into deep despair…
WONDeRFUL LIFE
Video/ Live Performance
The theater piece was based on the novel "American Psycho" by Bret Easton Ellis Brett. On stage, only one actor, a chair and the video projection.…
Holophrase:
TRANSVERBERRAR
As a transitive verb, “transverberar” means to reflect; to let the light or colour pass through. As an intransitive verb, is the act of piercing something, to …
WEIGHTLESS REVOLT
Sculpture
Two different sculptures on wax, plaster, graphite powder. Variants of the same concept: …
OBJECTS OF IMITATION
Video/ Video Installation
HSG
Sound installation
HSG - University of St. Gallen is one of the leading business schools in the world. The university has an important art collection including works by Gerhard…
ARENA
Installation/ Video
A labyrinth is built into the exhibition space with metal sticks and wire.
In another room, a screen transmits live images of the labyrinth and of its…
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