Gabriel Fuks

February 2020 Rio de Janeiro

Been together for too long.

June 24 2020 SFX

March 17 2020 Rio de Janeiro

After partying in the weekend I finally went out around my neighbourhood with the camera. It’s summer, the flowers are booming just as they would during Autumn, Winter or Printemps. I’m dressed as a gringo to justify the unusual behaviour and maybe because I am becoming one. It’s a huge camera,everyone looks at it. Two people tell me to be careful - ‘ouais, t’inquiètes, tô ligadão’. The weather cleared up so I decided to go for a quick dive. Zuka was there, I made a couple of portraits of his, laid down on the sand, reminded myself how this ritual has been part of my life for so long, then walked back home. As I arrived, my ninety five y.o grandma was crying alone in her room. Someone called, she said, saying that they were going to kill everybody. I called my relatives, made sure they were ok and calmed her down. It was a beautiful day.

Crisse de câlice de tabarnak d'osti de sacrament

January 16 2020 Montréal

Désolé(e), disconsolate, desolate. External and internal landscapes. What’s the relation between this country’s territorial vastness and its people’s overpolitesse? It is a stereotype, but true nonetheless. I don’t recall of any other example of such explicit correlation between territorial and personal space. How does nature affect human nature? Studying proxemics might help. The apology act was introduced in Canada in 2009, as a measure to give lawyers a fair chance defending clients who were never guilty but apologized all the same. Make a series, call it IDH.

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Lá, que sempre foi aqui
Já não o é
É là-bas
Cá, que era là-bas
Chui lá
Lá é aqui
Cá é lá
Là é cá
É aí que je suis

January 16 2020 Rio de Janeiro

Mom told me today that grandma’s caretaker found her lying on the floor in the morning and thought she was dead. When asked what happened my grandma couldn’t tell, she didn’t realize she’d spent the night on the floor with no pillow, which she readily asked for as soon as my mom got there to check on her. After that, my mom decided to bring her back home. Now they’re living together. My father and brothers all left. No one could take the smell of decay. Her body is excrementing itself. It’s very sad and hard to be around. I remember when she used to take care of me. I loved playing cards and watching novelas with her. She’s been watching Tennis on TV for some years now. I doubt that she can even see the ball but she loves it, especially Roger Federer. She always asks if I keep on playing just to tell me that I look like him.

January 16 2020 Montréal

Axellemongrass and Pole explore the different ways memories and affects, the other-than-human and geographies of life-course transitions can be performed and documented. Through digital recombination of traditional portraiture and local vegetation, the images examine relationships affected by my cultural passage as well as place as meeting point and site of cultural and natural intersection.

March 2020 Rio de Janeiro

All the brushes in the drawer - digital paintings.

January 2018 Montréal

Second projection mapping workshop at Concordia Uni. for the Intermedia BFA.

August 2018 Montréal

Live Démo for SAT’s Bourse Euterke recorded in August 2018. Audio excerpt from Bamboo Hermann’s live set on Piknik Elektronic, Montréal 10/09/2017.

May June 2018 Madrid

Iras Fajro Live AV Perf with Yamila Rios @ El Matadero Madrid

El lunes 11 de Junio 2018, Yamila Rios y el artista visual Gabriel Fuks presentaron en AVAM Matadero el resultado de su primera colaboración. En esta conjunción de fuerzas se han unido para conceptualizar el universo visual del directo del álbum debut de Yamila, Iras Fajro, 11 temas que rugen orquestados por una voz paradójicamente frágil. En el escenario, Yamila (voz, violoncello y electrónica) y Lucía Rey (voz y teclados) desplegaron un entramado de sonidos electrónicos e instrumentos acústicos frente a los complejos piélagos que, como islas perdidas, se distorsionan empujados por la fuerza de la música.

December 2018 Montréal

First experiments opening LCD screens and inserting objects.

May 2018 Montréal

Visual experiment developed during the workshop After Effects as a synthesizer for IMCA 400. Native effects only. No imported media. No external plugins. No sound. Just After Effects.

August 2017 São Paulo

Video Installation for Dekmantel

May 2016 São Paulo

Photo magazine for Samsung. Photographs, video, editing, motion and installation for the lunch party.

May 2016 Rio de Janeiro

Barriga no balcão is a series of product video reviews with a twist from Void General Store. I conceptualized, edited and animated the first 20 episodes of the series.