José Guedes

The Brazilian José Guedes represents the spirit of merging movements related to open knowledge and collective intelligence. He uses the media and technical support of his time and his ideas are connected with the contemporanean truth. This is why current icons are part of his eclectic and daily work. Any discipline Guedes chooses to communicate with the public, such as photography, video, installation, painting, design, object or intervention show a common substance, which is reflected in the pleasure of dialoguing with moments and details of the domestic life of our times. He finds his inspiration in recognizable stereotypes that are part of the “system” in order to discuss them and create a particular narrative speech, often fraught with a critic to the public life of his the country. According to Guedes, each object itself contains a poetics, which is expressed through the pent up emotion they have, a lyrics that is waiting to be found in order to express itself. The freedom of language allows the artist to perceive this sensitivity in objects, in order to lend them the dramatization of which they previously lacked.