Gabriel Mascaro

Gabriel Mascaro is a visual artist and filmmaker from Recife Brazil Mascaros work is characterized by a critical interpretation of the contemporaneity through observing or inventing everyday practices that involve performance games of inversion displacement and appropriation He investigates the relationship between micropolitics and everyday life through film installation and photography His films and video installations have been screened at important festivals and artistic eventsexhibitions including Venice IDFA Locarno Toronto Rotterdam MoMAnnNY Oberhausen Clermont Ferrand the Guggenheim MACBAn Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art Panorama da Arte Brasileira at MAM SP and the São Paulo Art Biennale Mascaro participated in the Videobrasil Artistic Residency at the Videoformes in France and the Wexner Center for Arts in the USA His films have won over 50 awards In April 2016 he had a retrospective of his work at the Lincoln Center in New York