The Artificial Humours
Gabriel Abrantes
Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisboa
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- Title
- The Artificial Humours
- Gallery
- Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisboa
- Year
- 2016
- Duration
- 29 min
Os humores artificiais [The Artificial Humours] was shot in Mato Grosso (Canarana and the Yawalapiti and Kamayura villages inside the Xingu Indigenous Park) and São Paulo. The film tells the story of a journey of an indigenous comedian who joins a robot and becomes famous in Brazil’s mainstream cultural industry. The uncanny film makes an issue of the humorous habits of various indigenous groups in contrast to progress and artificial intelligence.
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The work of Gabriel Abrantes create layers of unlikely readings by altering traditional narratives and touch upon the absurd, folklore, humour and politics. Hollywood aesthetics are mixed with documentary techniques, and avant-garde strategies are crossed with archaic technologies. Often funny, disconcerting, and provocative, his work suggests ambiguous readings of sensitive issues by twisting and perverting the viewer’s traditional expectations. Abrantes has regularly shown his work at museums such as the Tate Britain (London), the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), the MIT List Visual Arts Center (Boston), Museu Serralves (Porto), and Kunst-Werke (Berlin).
Last update: October 15th, 2019.
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Galeria Francisco Fino
- Address
- Rua Capitão Leitão, 76, 1950-052, Lisboa, Portugal
- Phone
- +351 215 842 211
- galeria@franciscofino.com
- Website
- www.franciscofino.com
Francisco Fino began its activities in 2012 with the presentation of exhibitions in cultural spaces in the city of Lisbon. Operating in different territories – museological institutions and commercial establishments – the gallery presented itself, in the early years, in a nomadic format, in line with the dynamic of mobility of the contemporary art system. The proposed programme, with exhibitions of artists such as Fernanda Gomes, David Maljković, and Tris Vonna-Michell, among others, positioned this mobile gallery project as a nonstop platform of presentation, diffusion and promotion of national and international contemporary art. In 2017, Galeria Francisco Fino settled into a fixed location, while continuing to position itself within the full breadth of cultural geography through partnerships with diverse institutions and events that form the artistic network. The representation of artists of various nationalities is linked to a programme of cultural research, anchored in the production of critical discourse.