“Missing tenses ikebana”

Pedro França experiments, in the visual field, with notions that in other fields are identified as “montage” and “performativity”. This means that he juxtaposes disparate parts and visual elements in processes that accumulate over time in sequences of gestures and decisions that cannot be corrected or reversed. His montage model would not be that of classical cinema, but that of digital video edited in a few minutes or seconds to be instantly shown online; and his performativity model would not be Italian theater, but the sum of transmutable and unpredictable sketches of the Ueinzz Theater Company (of which he is a member). This means that his works start from broad image archetypes (a landscape, a body, a tower) and, through clear and untimely gestures, arrive at something singular.

He attended independent courses at the Parque Lage School of Visual Arts between 1998 and 2005. He completed his Master's degree in History at PUC-Rio (2010). Between 2006 and 2011 he was a professor of Art History at the Parque Lage School of Visual Arts and currently teaches at MAM-SP and the Tomie Ohtake Institute (SP). In 2010, he worked as curator of the Terreiros' film, performance and debate program at the 29th São Paulo Biennial. In 2011, he curated, together with Fernando Cocchiarale, the exhibition "Trojan Horses" as part of the "Chaos and Effect" show at Itaú Cultural.

Since 2011, he has worked with drawings, films and installations, holding solo and group exhibitions such as "Frestas" (Trienal SESC, 2017), "Lugares do Delírio" (MAR - RJ, 2017), "Agora somos mais de mil" (EAV Parque Lage, RJ, 2016), "Arte Atual Festival" (Instituto Tomie Ohtake, 2015), "Rumos Itaú Cultural" (2015), "Strip" (Fredric Snitzer Gallery, 2015), "Capital/Radical" (Galeria Central, 2014), "Objeto da Natureza" (Paço das Artes, 2014), "Boletim" (Galeria Milan, 2013), "É preciso confrontar as imagens vagues com gestos claros" (Oficina Oswald de Andrade, 2012), "Homeroadmovie" (CCSP, 2012).

He was nominated for the PIPA award in 2016, 2017 and 2018. With the Ueinzz Theater Company, he has collaborated since 2011 in the development of the plays "Cais de Ovelhas" and "Gravidade Zero", in addition to other projects, and much of his recent work is born from contact and work in the Company's performance experiences.