All images © Felipe de Ávila Franco. The use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission from the artist is obtained.
All images © Felipe de Ávila Franco. The use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission from the artist is obtained.
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Installation, 2010 Asphalt collected pieces Variable dimensions
Sculpture, 2010 Bricks, mirrors, iron tap, water, and electro-mechanics 60x50x40cm
Sculpture, 2010 Wood, aluminum, brass, galvanized and bricks 180x180x50cm
Sculpture, 2010 Chemically aged steel sheet 65x80cm
Installation, 2010 Bricks, crushed bricks, wood frame and glass 120x180cm
Installation, 2010 Asphalt collected pieces Variable dimensions
Sculpture, 2010 Bricks, mirrors, iron tap, water, and electro-mechanics 60x50x40cm
Sculpture, 2010 Wood, aluminum, brass, galvanized and bricks 180x180x50cm
Sculpture, 2010 Chemically aged steel sheet 65x80cm
Installation, 2010 Bricks, crushed bricks, wood frame and glass 120x180cm
Provoked Archaeologies #2
Installation, 2019
Excavated soil in the Amazonia rainforest, branches, and sisal rope
Variable Measures
BIO
Felipe de Ávila Franco (1982) is a Brazilian visual artist radicated in Finland since 2013. His artistic approach is conducted through the lens of biopolitics and environmental aesthetics, exploring the boundaries between sculpture and other mediums. His works incorporate industrial residues and other materials such as constructive debris, petrochemical derivatives, and contaminated soil collected from regions of large-scale industrial activity or where environmental disasters have been reported. Through the combination of traditional and experimental techniques, these materials are transfigured into sculptures, ceramic series, video projections, and installations, besides electromechanical systems and other interventions.
Grounded on concepts of materiality, his work is dedicated to translating the industrial dystopia of our current times casting sculpture as a practice that can materialize temporalities and dimensions and reflect on the encounter between the scales of the human, the nonhuman, and the planet. His artistic process addresses art as a tool to awake new perspectives of knowledge, establishing interdisciplinary links between humanities and natural sciences. Throwing a critical look over the environmental emergency, his works aim at evoking art as a mechanism to activate a deeper discussion on the conflicting relationship between human society and nature, highlighting those as interdependent entities.
Currently, the artist works based in Finland and develops his work between Latin America and Europe. His works integrate distinct collections such as the Museum of Brazilian Art, in São Paulo, and the Finnish National Gallery Kiasma, in Helsinki.