Fidel Évora

“Screen printing is something I do freely, just like a musician uses an instrument. As I print, Iblend layers until the final composition no longer resembles its source. I move between theimage and itssigns, just like I do when I remember”.

The Information Age absorbs everything: reality, the terrain, and our identities. We have ceased engaging in mouth-to-mouth conversations, just like people did before the advent of the internet. When we moved online, we’ve exchanged mud and heaven for the virtual and the cloud. With this move, our personal and collective biographies have become endlessly malleable because they have lost their anchor in the physical world.

By converting digital images into bitmaps or, more simply put, pixel maps, I can manipulate these memory organization systems to create novel compositions. My artistic expression mirrors the way a landscaper depicts its surroundings. It’s whatever the algorithm, and its stream flows into my attention. With the help of analog printing techniques such as screen-printing or lithography, I can bring these images to life, transforming them from digital bits to carbon-based representations.

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Biography

Fidel Évora (b. 1984, Cidade da Praia, Cape Verde), but grew up in Barreiro (Portugal). In 2004 he completed the technical course of image and communication at ETIC and in 2008he took a Master in Motion Graphics at BAU Escola Superior de Disseny in Barcelona. Between 2004 and 2010 he worked as a Graphic Designer. He seeks to cultivate his taste for research and preservation of artefacts, recovering important memories for collective and personal identity; divided between these borders, he creates compositions between the real and the fictional, treading his own path, forging forgotten dialogues on purpose or unintentionally.

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Selected works