• Our hands of cloud and wind
  • Our hands of cloud and wind
  • Our hands of cloud and wind
  • Our hands of cloud and wind

avaf

“Our hands of cloud and wind”

(SKU. 14256)

  • Date

    2025

  • Technique

    hand-woven tapestry in dyed alpaca wool

  • Dimensions

    120 x 90 cm (without fringes)

  • Edition

    12 + 3PA

  • Comes with certificate of authenticity

R$ 45.000,00
R$ 45.000,00
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The tapestry "Our Hands of Cloud and Wind," by avaf, merges textile materiality and a vibrant visual universe. Handmade from dyed alpaca wool, it overflows with pictorial energy through intense colors and abstract forms, evoking movement and expansion. The fragmented structure, with loose threads detaching from the weave, suggests constant transformation, while the hanging fringes reinforce the fluidity between control and freedom.

Textile materiality is combined with an explosive gestural quality that echoes artisanal and digital practices, reaffirming contemporary textiles as an expressive medium. With its visual fragmentation and chromatic intensity, "Our Hands of Cloud and Wind" synthesizes avaf's search for hybrid territories, where color, texture, and space converge into new sensory possibilities.

All editions are subject to minor variations, as they are dyed and produced manually.

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Biography

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b. 1968, Rio de Janeiro (RJ). Lives and works in São Paulo.

assume vivid astro focus / avaf is an artist collective founded in 2001. avaf can take on different forms depending on the different projects they are involved in. avaf works in a wide range of media, including installations, painting, tapestry, neon, video, wallpaper, music, etc. They often confront deep-rooted cultural codes, gender issues and politics through an overabundance of colors and shapes.

The pseudonym is a fundamental part of his process of working “collectively”: the central aim of his projects is always the creation of a Gesamtkunstwerk (“total work of art”) where the viewer becomes one with the work of art. Being inclusive is a key part of the realization of his works - avaf uses color as a conductor of energy and a universal language, thus ensuring the participation and surrender of the viewer. Color works as a unifying force: between people and between people and the space/architecture around them. The public is always a central part of all his projects.

assume vivid astro focus opened a major installation at the Bass Museum in Miami in December 2024, concurrent with a solo exhibition at the Fredric Snitzer gallery in the same city. avaf has been the subject of exhibitions and public art projects in galleries and museums in Brazil and abroad, including: Bass Museum, Miami, USA (2024); MASP, São Paulo, Brazil (2024); Galería Malborough, Madrid, Spain (2024); Art Dubai, Dubai (2024); Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund, Germany (2024); Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brazil (2023); Sesc Avenida Paulista (2023); LAMB Gallery, London, UK (2022); Thailand Biennale, Korat, Thailand (2021); Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, USA (2021); Lanterna Mágica, São Paulo, Brazil (2021); MUBE (Brazilian Museum of Sculpture and Ecology), São Paulo, Brazil (2020); among others.

avaf was one of the four finalists for the 2018 Pipa Prize.

Representative galleries

Triangle House , Sao Paulo

Destaques da carreira

  • "Alterações vividas absolutamente fantasiosas" | 2023 | SESC Avenida Paulista, São Paulo - SP
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  • Aquele vestígio assim... feérico | 2018 | Casa Triângulo, São Paulo
  • assume vivid astro focus (avaf) | 2023 | Casa Triângulo, São Paulo