“Anti Ego Device”

In Beto Shwafaty's artistic production, the word “production” sounds imprecise – it would be better to use research, reasoning or artistic demonstration. This is because his practice concerns ways of crossing historical investigations with critical interests present in new spatial devices (from appropriated objects to constructed furniture and installations). Such investigations constantly pass through the fields of politics, power, utopia, urbanism, architecture, art, design and, especially, through their intersections.

He holds a Master’s degree in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies from the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti – NABA (Milan, Italy, 2010) and was a fellow of Simon Starling’s group at the Staedelschule (Frankfurt, Germany, 2010/2011). Shwafaty has been involved in collective, curatorial and spatial practices since the early 2000s, and as a result, he develops a research-based practice of spaces, histories and visualities in which he seeks to formally and conceptually connect convergent political, social and cultural issues to the field of art.

He has held solo exhibitions in several national and international institutions, including the Funarte Cultural Complex (Brasília, Brazil, 2017), Prometeogallery (Milan, Italy, 2016), Museu da Cidade - Oca (São Paulo, Brazil, 2014), Paço das Artes (São Paulo, Brazil, 2014), PArC (Lima, Peru, 2014), Frankfurt am Main (Germany, 2011).