Afonso Guimarães dos Santos
Born in Porto, Portugal
Est. 1996
ARTIST PROFILE
I understand my practice as reflection upon the inescapable and pressing issues of our times.
In the streets, we are constantly faced with poverty, inequality, waste and alienation. In this way, the streets act as living archive, where I develop an ongoing research project, and which also functions as never-ending platform to show work.
Nowadays we live in a world where the vast majority of people can read, and the Internet made information instantly and globally accessible, but pinpointing the truth and engaging in meaningful dialogue is getting increasingly difficult. I propose that through collectively thinking about (and even making) art, we can facilitate spaces for these dialogues, and that over times this will puncture capitalism’s ‘absorbent void’.
Exhibitions and Residencies
2014 | Group exhibition - Exposição D’a Naifa, Casa Viva, Porto, Portugal
2016 | Sculpture Course exhibition ‘How to eat a grapefruit’, St.Giles Church, Camberwell, London
2017 | Sculpture Course exhibition ‘In the making’- AMP Studios, Old Kent Road, London
2018 | Camberwell 2nd year students’ exhibition ‘Over Capacity’- CGP Gallery, London
2018 | Group exhibition ‘0.0354ᵒW’ – The Old Police Station – Deptford London
2018 |Artistic Residency – XX Bienal Internacional de Arte de Cerveira – V.N.Cerveira Portugal
2018 | Liminal Environments – The Silver Building – London
2019| TBC: A show of work of drawing and sculpture students from CCA – Copeland Gallery -London
2019 |Croaky Throat – Take Courage Gallery – London
2019 | Rubble – A collaborative show – hARTSlane gallery - London
2019 |Croaky Throat – Take Courage Gallery – London
2019|TBC: A show of work of drawing and sculpture students from CCA – Copeland Gallery -
London
2021| Deptford X Fringe – House for Sitting Ducks- Folkstone Gardens, Deptford- London
2021|Lost Property/ Arcade – AMP Gallery- London
2022|XII Bienal Internacional de Arte Jovem de Vila Verde– Vila Verde- Portugal
