Felipe de Ávila Franco
Felipe de Ávila Franco (b.1982) is a Brazilian visual artist working between South America and Europe since 2013. His work explores the intersection of sculpture and other mediums, delving into themes of biopolitics and environmental aesthetics. Through different blends of traditional and experimental techniques, his process incorporates industrial materials and residues to be transfigured into sculptures, installations, ceramic series and other interventions questioning notions of nature, energy, territory, and the human body.
Grounded on concepts of materiality, his work expresses concern with the industrial dystopia of our current times, illuminating sculpture as a practice capable of materializing temporalities and dimensions that reflect on the encounter between the scales
of the human, the nonhuman, and the planet. The artist addresses the artistic process as a mechanism to awaken new perspectives of knowledge, establishing interdisciplinary links between arts, humanities, natural sciences and ancient cosmologies. Engaging in a critical examination of topics regarding the socio-environmental emergency, his work aims at evoking art as a tool to activate a deeper discussion on the conflicting relationship between human society and the natural
environment, highlighting those as interdependent entities.
Currently, the artist works between Brazil and Finland. His work has been displayed in South America, Asia, Europe and United States, and integrates distinguished collections such as the Museum of Brazilian Arts FAAP, in São Paulo, the Helsinki Arts Museum HAM, and the Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, in Helsinki.
Mika Hytti
Mika Hytti (b.1961) graduated as a painter from Art School Maa in 1990, and also completed studies in art education at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki in 1997. During his thirty-year career, he has had several solo exhibitions, participated in many group exhibitions and taught at several art schools since the 1990s. His works are in the collections of Kouvola Art Museum, the State of Finland and HUS, as well as in many private collections. Hytti is a member of Forum Box, the Helsinki Artists’ Association and the Finnish Painters’ Union.
Laura Lowe
Laura Lowe is an emerging oil painter working with the iridescent colour spectra found in oil slicks and coal seams. Rather than using pigment, Lowe’s Structural Colour Paintings produce colour by building up layers of translucent paint, which bend and refract light like a prism. Her practice is informed by laboratory experimentation and an alchemical interest in the interplay of light and matter.
Lowe trained at Factum Arte & Factum Foundation, Madrid before completing her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, during which she won the Hotel GLO Art competition and her MFA degree show was awarded the Anita Snellman award. Lowe’s work has been exhibited at Galleria Paperihuone, Hämeenlinna ‘22; Galleria Rajatila, Tampere ‘23; B-galleria, Turku ‘24, and Huuto galleria, Helsinki ‘25. Lowe is currently working with a two-year working grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation on an upcoming solo show “Fiat Lux”, Forum Box ‘26, as well as group shows for Madrid and Oulu.
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