Ilê Sartuzi (1995, lives and works in London) is an artist graduated from the University of São Paulo (USP) and now pursues his MFA at Goldsmisths, University of London. He received the PIPA Award (2021) and is co-creator of the artist-run space arte_passagem. 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. Repetition is recurrent in his work, either as a constructive element of modular objects, a cyclic structure, or as a dramaturgical strategy.
He has participated in exhibitions at institutions 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 work at SESC Pompéia (São Paulo, 2022).
EDUCATION
(2022 – 2024) GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
Master in Fine Arts
(2014 – 2019) UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO (ECA/USP)
Bachelor in Fine Arts
(2015 – 2021) Research group – After the End of Art
with Prof. Dr. Dora Longo Bahia
(2018 – 2019) RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP FAPESP
“Images of otherness in the work of Henri Matisse”
thesis advisor Prof. Dr. Sônia Salzstein
(2019) INSTITUTO TOMIE OHTAKE | Escola Entrópica
with Paulo Miyada and Pedro França
(2020) GAIA – Grupo de Arte e Inteligência Artificial
Group of Art and Artificial Intelligence
GAIA/C4AI/Inova USP
(2013) RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF ART
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 hollow head doll’s doam, SESC Pompéia, São Paulo
2021 A. And A again. auroras, São Paulo
Nhonhô, Videobrasil, São Paulo (duo)
2020 Dollhouse Gallery, Dollhouse Gallery
2019 hollow head doll’s foam, firma, São Paulo
2018 Faço pé e mão, arte_passagem, São Paulo (duo)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022
Desvairar 22, SESC Pinheiros, São Paulo
Ópera citoplasmática, Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba
Apocalypse Now, Projeto Vênus, São Paulo
Setas e turmalinas, Casa de Cultura do Parque, São Paulo
O cru e o cozido, Galeria Athena, Rio de Janeiro
Uma mão lava a outra, OLHÃO, São Paulo
Aquisições recentes: Coleção Instituto PIPA, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro
2021
Ninguém teria acreditado, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo
Notes on some dysfunctionality, Homeostasis.lab
Tropic 23º 26’14’’ S – Visualizing Spatial Data, Homeostasis.lab
SUPER-NATURAL, Olhão, São Paulo
SUPER-NATURAL, MASSIMO, Milão (Itália)
SUPER-NATURAL, BPA, Colônia (Alemanha)
Factors 8, Bienal SUR / Labart UFSM
Arte e Tecnologia: uma revolução em curso, State, São Paulo
2020
IMS Convida, IMS – Instituto Moreira Salles
Ao Ar, Livre, Tiago de Abreu Pinto
SARP, Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto
Tá me vendo? Tá me ouvindo?, Casa Niemeyer, Brasília
2019
Mostra de Arte da Juventude, SESC Ribeirão Preto
os dois a 80km/h…, Caixa Preta, Rio de Janeiro
Precipitações: ArteLondrina7, UEL – Universidade Estadual de Londrina
Nascente, Centro Universitário Maria Antonia, São Paulo
DESFILÃO de_passagem, arte_passagem, São Paulo
O Grande Susto, cc espaço, São Paulo
Amarradona, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo
migalhas, galeria o quarto, São Paulo
Ocupação 9 de Julho, São Paulo
2018
PAREDÃO, CCSP – Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo
VERBO, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo
Ruído e ausência contínuos, Galeria Sancovsky, São Paulo
Faço pé e mão, arte_passagem, São Paulo
Bienal das Artes, SESC-DF, Brasília
Aonde Vamos?, Galeria Lume, São Paulo
Interface2, Interface, Rio de Janeiro
2017
Ainda não, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo
Subsessões: Avenida Paulista, MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo
Programa de Exposições 2017, MARP – Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto
Novas Poéticas 2017, Galeria Cañizares, Salvador
25ª Programa Nascente, MAC-USP – Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo
24º Salão de Artes Plásticas de Praia Grande, Palácio das Artes, Praia Grande
2015
Transformandos, MAC-USP – Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo (Cid. Universitária), São Paulo
Programa de Exposições 2015, MARP – Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto
40º Salão de Arte de Ribeirão Preto (SARP), MARP – Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto
Salão de Artes Visuais de Vinhedo, Vinhedo (Menção Honrosa do Júri)
2014
I Salão de Artes Plásticas Solar dos Andradas, São Paulo (Troféu Solar dos Andradas)
23º Salão Curitibano, Curitiba
22º Salão de Artes de Mococa, Mococa
THEATRICAL PLAYS
2019
cabeça oca espuma de boneca, Firma, São Paulo
Terra Tu Pátria, TUSP, São Paulo (Temporada)
Terra Tu Pátria, Teatro de Contêiner, São Paulo (Temporada)
Terra Tu Pátria, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo (Festival)
2018
Terra Tu Pátria, Oficina Oswald de Andrade, São Paulo (Temporada)
SCREENINGS
2022 Juan Downey International Contest, Bienal De Artes Mediales, Santiago, Chile
9no Corriente, Encuentro Latinoamericano de Cine de no ficcíon, Arequipa, Peru
2021 Juan Downey Prize Finalists, Onda Media, ARTV, Santiago, Chile
NaVaranda, Casa de Cultura do Parque, São Paulo
Imersões: arte e arquitetura, Rio de Janeiro
2020 Night and Day, Olhão, São Paulo
Arte como Respiro, Itaú Cultural
Audiovisual sem destino, Galeria A Sala
RESIDENCIES
2022 Pivô Arte Pesquisa, São Paulo
2020 Olhão Art Residency, São Paulo
PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2022 Winner of the XV Juan Downey Prize, Bienal de Artes Mediales, Chile
2021 Winner of the PIPA Prize, Brazil
2018-2019 Research scholarship by FAPESP, Brazil
PROJECTS
Co-creator and director of arte_passagem, an artist-run project that consists of the artistic occupation of a window in downtown São Paulo, where, periodically, an artist is invited to intervene through proposals that dialogue with the surroundings of the city center, its stores and its passersby. The project seeks to create a program that expands the traditional ways of thinking about contemporary art, and proposes a specific challenge for artists or groups of artists.