Francisco Rodrigues (b. 2001, Funchal, PT) is an a̶r̶t̶i̶s̶t̶ based in Lisbon working accross video, performance and installation. He is interested in the relationships between technology , queerness, and the internet . Forever inspired by wrongness, randomness, pop culture and the surrounding socio-political conditions. Devilishly sly and mischievous, Rodrigues’s work focuses on themes around identity, depravity , trash, appropriation, fetishization , and perversion
𓀐𓂸. He approaches these subjects by editing gathered content collected from the web, from archives, and from his living. Fact and fiction get pulled in unpredictably playful ways, as the line between documentation and narrative blurs. Seemingly disparate objects are put in a blender and the resulting amalgamation is consumed but also regurgitated mid-digestion in an experimental exercise of rejection and filth . Horizons are abolished , objects are morphed, meaning becomes c̶̡̥̰͓̘͓̊̀̓ố̸̱͖̇̄͐͠d̴̥͚͙̪̈́̒̊̍̕ͅè̸̹̃d̶͖͉̙͆͛̍̂̊͝ . Burning/stomping/tearing/undoing - on a perpetual loop.
education
2023 - present MFA Multimedia arts, FBAUL, Lisbon, PT
2019 - 2022 BFA Fine Arts, Falmouth University, Falmouth, UK
selected shows
2023 Pedra Angular, Anona Gallery, Funchal, PT
2023 PUSSY GUM PINK 1000, Anona Gallery, Funchal, PT
2022 Origins, Michael Pennie Gallery, Bath, UK
2022 Origins, Goldfish Bowl Gallery, Falmouth, UK
2022 Origins, Porthleven Arts Festival, Porthleven, UK
2022 A30 @ No20, No 20 arts, London, UK
2022 PUSSY GUM PINK 1000 in THE BASEMENT, Falmouth University, UK
2022 Meander, Tate St Ives, St Ives, UK
2022 flatverse, Goldfish Bowl Gallery, Falmouth, UK
2021 Miniatures, Grays Wharf, Penryn, UK