Pedro França

Born in: 1984
From: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Lives and works: São Paulo, Brazil
Represented by: Martins & Montero

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Biography

França's work engages in schizo and metonymical rearrangements of images and objects, in both individual and collaborative practices. In his oeuvre, his daily experience is introduced through objects, images and videos that challenge the viewer to encounter something excessive and unclassifiable. By tearing, crumpling, blotting, gluing, breaking, and staining, he investigates ways to evoke a place of murmur and indetermination, positivating processes of dismantling and destruction.

He experiments with notions that in other fields are identified as montage and performativity. In a nod to the neo-dadaist tradition, such as the practices from Robert Rauschenberg, França juxtaposes disparate parts and visual elements in processes that accumulate with the passage of time – objects, video excerpts, layers of paint – sequences and gestures made in quick decisions that cannot be corrected or reversed, resulting in complex installational systems.

His close relation to theater scenography and stage acting is consonant to the artistic inventions of Loïe Fuller, in a manner of bringing theatrical technological components and motion outside of its environment and thus to a broader public.

Career highlights

Solo shows

2018, Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil: Don’t Judd me! I just arrived and there’s this Giant Ulcera among us
2015, São Paulo, Brazil: Rumos Itaú Cultural
2014, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil: Object of Nature
2014, Central Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil: Capital/Radical
2013, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil: Homeroadmovie

Group shows

2019, FAAP University, São Paulo, Brazil: 7th Marcantonio Vilaça Prize
2018, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil: AI-5 50 anos (não acabou de acabar)
2017, MAR Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Places of Delirium
2017, Jacarandá Art Space, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Arthur, Janina, Marco e Pedro
2017, SESC Sorocaba, Sorocaba-SP, Brazil: Frestas Triennial 2017: Between post truths and events