Ilê Franco Brotto

Ilê Sartuzi is an artist and researcher. He graduated from the University of São Paulo (USP), where he organized a series called Debates of Contemporary Art. Now, he develops his research at the MFA programme at Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2018, his research "Images of otherness in the work of Henri Matisse" received the FAPESP incentive scholarship being advised by Profa. Dr. Sônia Salzstein. He worked at the Center for Research and Formation of the Centro Universitário Maria Antonia; and as a researcher, producer and assistant to the Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, accompanying his project of interviews in Brazil (2016-2017). He is co-creator and organizer of the arte_passagem project, in downtown São Paulo. 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, 2022-2023). His research involves sculptural objects, mapped video projections, installations and theatrical plays addressing issues related to the idealized image of the body which are often fragmented or constructed from different parts, but also the absence of such figure in proto-architectural and digital spaces. An interest in the dramatic arts in recent years has given a theatricality to his objects and installations which are animated by mechanical movements and interpret dramaturgy and choreographies. He has participated in exhibitions at some of the most important institutions in Brazil, such as Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (2021); auroras (2021); Videobrasil (2021); Museu Oscar Niemeyer (2022); Bienal SUR (2021); Instituto Moreira Salles (2020); SESC (Pompéia, 2022; Pinheiros, 2022; Ribeirão Preto, 2019; Distrito Federal, 2018); CCSP Centro Cultural São Paulo (2018); MAC-USP Museu de Arte Contemporânea (2017); Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto (2020; 2017; 2015); Galeria Vermelho (2017; 2018, 2019); all three in collaboration with the research group After the End of Art, which he has been part of from 2015 to 2021. He presented theatrical plays, performing mapped video projections in spaces such as Oficina Oswald de Andrade (2018, 2020); Itaú Cultural (2019); Container Theater (2019) and at TUSP (2019). Working for more than a year on a specific project, he presented his play with absent actors ?hollow head doll?s foam? at Firma (São Paulo, 2019) and later premiered the play at SESC Pompéia (São Paulo, 2022). He collaborated with the contemporary Mexican art magazine Terremoto and the Rio de Janeiro magazine Jacarandá. Has experience in the field of Arts, with emphasis on Painting. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)