Ilê Sartuzi
Statement
His research involves sculptural objects, mapped video projections, mechatronic installations and theatrical plays toying with the idea of animating objects. Speculating about a possible post-anthropocenic scenario, the work brings together technological apparatus and a theatrical atmosphere to create mechanisms that follow different internal logics. The instability and flaws in these fragile machines add some kind of personality to their performances.
With the recurrent absence of a main character or a narrative element, from this empty centre, attention gets dispersed into infrastructural elements of the works. The interest in the dramatic arts has given a theatricality to his objects and installations which areanimated by mechanical movements and interpret dramaturgy and choreographies; often in an exercise of repetition that leads to no catharsis but, instead, begin to reveal the functioning of the machines themselves. More recently, his research became interested in a more conceptual approach to the infrastructural level of institutions, tricks, sleight of hand and misdirection.
His research involves sculptural objects, mapped video projections, mechatronic installations and theatrical plays toying with the idea of animating objects. Speculating about a possible post-anthropocenic scenario, the work brings together technological apparatus and a theatrical atmosphere to create mechanisms that follow different internal logics. The instability and flaws in these fragile machines add some kind of personality to their performances.
With the recurrent absence of a main character or a narrative element, from this empty centre, attention gets dispersed into infrastructural elements of the works. The interest in the dramatic arts has given a theatricality to his objects and installations which areanimated by mechanical movements and interpret dramaturgy and choreographies; often in an exercise of repetition that leads to no catharsis but, instead, begin to reveal the functioning of the machines themselves. More recently, his research became interested in a more conceptual approach to the infrastructural level of institutions, tricks, sleight of hand and misdirection.
Biography
Ilê Sartuzi(1995, lives and works between London and São Paulo) is an artist graduated from the University of São Paulo and holds an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London. He received the PIPA Award (Brazil, 2021), the prize at the Bienal de Artes Mediales (Chile, 2022), and has been nominated twice for the CIFO- Ars Electronica award (USA-Austria, 2022-2023). Some of his recent solo exhibitions include “Vaudeville” at Pedro Cera (Lisbon, 2023); “hollow head doll’s foam” at SESC Pompéia (São Paulo, 2022) and “A. And A again.” at auroras (São Paulo, 2021).
Ilê Sartuzi(1995, lives and works between London and São Paulo) is an artist graduated from the University of São Paulo and holds an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London. He received the PIPA Award (Brazil, 2021), the prize at the Bienal de Artes Mediales (Chile, 2022), and has been nominated twice for the CIFO- Ars Electronica award (USA-Austria, 2022-2023). Some of his recent solo exhibitions include “Vaudeville” at Pedro Cera (Lisbon, 2023); “hollow head doll’s foam” at SESC Pompéia (São Paulo, 2022) and “A. And A again.” at auroras (São Paulo, 2021).
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Degree Show Location:
Ben Pimlott Building, 6th Floor
Prelude (or curtain call), 2021 : steel, velvet curtain, stepper motor, arduino : 93 x 76 x 20 cm
Vaudeville, Installation view of the solo show at Pedro Cera, Lisbon, 2023
Vaudeville, Installation view of the solo show at Pedro Cera, Lisbon, 2023
Hands movie, 2023 video, B&W, no sound steel structure and monitor 06’19” 40 x 39 x 36,5 cm
TGIRLS, as part of the theatre play 'hollow head dolls foam' presented at SESC Pompéia, São Paulo, 2022