Luiza Furtado,
*1999, Florianópolis, Brazil. Lives and works between Vienna and Rio de Janeiro.
(+43) 676 6212978 / luizafurtado.art@gmail.com / @luizafurtado__ / vimeo
Education
2021/2026
Image and Context, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. (Master)
2016/2021
Industrial Design, PUC, Rio de Janeiro. (Bachelor)
Residencies
2025
“Through Slippery Times” Schüle Program, Im Flieger, Vienna.
2021
“Operar n(o) caos” Casa Escada Colorida, Rio de Janeiro.
Performances
2025
“Surge” INDEX Festival, VBKÖ, Vienna.
“Schulerinas” INDEX Festival, Im Flieger, Vienna.
“Hibris 01” Das Weisse Haus, Vienna
2024
“Tymball Caves” Exhibit Gallery Akbild, Vienna.
“Hybrid Viscera” Schillerpark, Vienna.
“Nothing is something like everything” by Michikazu Matsune. Impulstanz, Vienna.
2023
“Entering the Web” Parallel, Vienna.
“Miradores de la Viuda: Viscosities of Mourning” MARKK, Hamburg.
“The sea room” Gemalde Galerie Akbild, Vienna.
2022
“Homesick Festival” by Michikazu Matsune, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna.
“Sede Ossea” House of Losing Control, Vienna Art Week, Performance.
“Agulha e Memoria” Alfred Institute, Tel Aviv.
“The School of Mountains and Water” by Amanda Pina, Tanz Quartier Wien, Vienna.
“Archeology of Whispers” U.B AKBILD - Vienna.
“Coluna” SKINS Festival, Dschungel Theatre, Vienna.
Group Exhibitions
2025
“Grüne Wasche Wien” Kunsthaus Hundertwasser Museum, Vienna.
“Santa Maria Paraffina - myth, trope, glitch” VBKÖ, Vienna.
2024
“In the still of the Night” Exhibit Studio Akbild, Vienna.
"Wild am Brillantengrund" Hotel am Brillantengrund, Vienna.
“Fragility of Being” Das Weisse Haus, Vienna.
“Soundscapes of Intersectional Enconters” Exhibit Gallery Akbild, Vienna.
2023
“Colligated Arteries” House of Inciting Passion - Vienna Art Week, Vienna.
“Miradores de la Viuda: Viscosities of Mourning” MARKK, Hamburg.
“Weaving Spinal Voids” Parallel, Vienna.
“Santa Maria Parafina” MOM Art Space, Hamburg.
“Patchwork” Young Curators Club, Vienna.
“Sextilles” Garage Grande, Vienna.
“Darkness Project” Prater woods, Vienna.
“Water Lilly Growing” Wasserturm, Vienna.
“Rock, Paper, Scissors” AAA Collections Gallery, Vienna.
“Fragments as Casts for a Dystopic City” BCMA Gallery, Berlin.
2022
“What are you looking at” Exhibit Eschenbachgasse, Vienna.
“Contextual painting class” Parallel Vienna, Vienna.
“Hyper R” Never at Home, Vienna.
“April fools show” Sallesianergasse, Vienna.
2021
“Como não subir uma escada” Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro.
“Crosta” colaboration with Roberta Lima at Charim Factory - Vienna Art Week, Vienna.
“Casulo - video of the month” Das Weisse Haus, Vienna.
“Outside in Festival” The Coronet Theatre, London.
“Inside out program” The Coronet Theatre, London.
“Cascas” Rio de Janeiro.
2020
“Arte sem Fronteiras” Bienal Black Art Brazil.
“Protagonismo, Sororidade e Empoderamento” SESC, São Paulo.
2019
“Bicho”, Casa Bicho, Rio de Janeiro.
“Interseções Poéticas” Galpão, Rio de Janeiro.
“Corpo Serpente”, Galpão Ladeira das Artes, Rio de Janeiro.
Workshops
2025
“RAVC (Trama)" Wearables workshop, Residency Program by Bienal Black Art Brasil.
2024
“RAVC (Trama)" Wearables workshop, Residency Program by Bienal Black Art Brasil.
2021
“RAVC (Ninharias)" Wearables workshop, Residency Program by Bienal Black Art Brasil.
“Stitching Workshop” invitation by Roberta Lima Queer Way, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna.
Artist Statement
I work as a performer and multimedia artist researching materiality, within its ecological reverberances in the Anthropocene. I am interested in the friction between past and present. While focusing on topics of hybridity in late stage capitalism, to trace connections between biopolitical control and industrial dynamics.
The construction of my work beggins with a practice of arquiving urban materials. Which are second hand fragments - that were industrially produced - such as; textiles, metal and plastic. Sourcing them from comercial spaces like recycling centers, often, flea markets or organically collecting from people in my community and interrupted areas around the city.
My background as an industrial designer influences my approach with material. Every surface that comes into the work triggers questioning. And, each question takes form as a line in my research web. Knotting, through tensioned layers (in which circumstances was this element built? what were the machines involved? how will it be absorbed by the soil?).
Influenced by Haraway's writings on cyborgism and Latour’s contextualization of climate crisis emergence. I reflect on (natural/synthetic) surfaces as repositories of living memory, and delve into their prosthetic quality as extensions of the human body. In performances, I combine soft sculpture and fluid costume with embodied movement as tools to blurr these boundaries.