Mauricio Chades

Artist Presentation, Sep 27, 11:30

The Isabel Bader Center Screening Room

About the Artist

Maurício Chades is an artist and filmmaker from Brazil. His works in film, installation, sculpture, and performance speculate about anticolonial symbiotic futures and queer ecologies. Envisioning syntropic environments and multispecies alliances, his practice combines storytelling with restorative agriculture, composting, and fungiculture. Maurício holds a BA in Cinema Studies, an MA in Art and Technology from the University of Brasilia, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He participated in collective groups such as Espaço AVI, Kinofogo Cineclube, and NINHO - Collective for Research in Art, Interactivity, and Agroecology. His works were shown worldwide, like at Queer Lisbon, Curitiba International Film Festival, and FILE – Electronic Language International Festival. In 2019, he presented his first solo show, Pyramid, Urubu, at The Brasilia Digital TV Tower, receiving the Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards in 2022. In 2023, Chades was featured at the Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil. His most recent accomplishment was the first prize of the e-flux Film Award for Green Cemetery. Mauricio is currently participating in the Landing exhibition at No 9 Gardens, close to Kingston.