Binelde Hyrcan (1983, Angola) is a multidisciplinary artist who works with painting, drawing, sculpture, film, performance and installation. His work addresses the absurdity represented by social and political customs and attitudes, criticizing the structures of power and human vanity. The various characters and arrangements that Hyrcan brings in his work are designed to ridicule the exacerbated power and delusions of grandeur.
Using imagination and dreaming as methods of endurance and overcoming, his configurations parody the constructs of power, poverty, migration and inequality, with delicately negotiated humor, reflecting both his confrontation of the country’s troubling realities and relations with the outside world and enjoyment of the creative process. A humanist, his work also reflects intimate aspects of his life’s journey on this earth.
Hyrcan’s work was exhibited at Hamburger Bahnhof (Germany),Center Pompidou (France), Angolan Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale (Italy) and The JewishMuseum (USA), among others.
