Monograph/artist's book featuring numerous exhibition views, texts and an interview, and a series of drawings by Fernão Cruz.
Fernão Cruz: Outro is a paper exoskeleton in the format of a quasi-artist's book, centered on the homonymous exhibition at Rialto6 in Lisbon (May–July 2024). Outro was the construction of a metadomestic site, where time was suspended by uninhabited household objects in the aftermath of a fire—like a theater play that was forgotten to be dismantled. The book contains installation views and works images, an introductory text by Thomas Ellmer, an essay on love, acceptance, and loss by Mariana Lemos, and a conversation between Carolina Grau and the artist. It is further enriched by unseen drawings directly scanned from Cruz's notebooks, offering new perspectives on the creation of an ever-evolving body of work.
Fernão Cruz (born 1995) lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. He graduated from FBAUL with a degree in Painting (2017). Between 2016 and 2017 Fernão lived, studied and worked in Barcelona, at the Universitat de Barcelona: Facultat de Belles Arts. In 2018 he presented the book Stretching Can Be Easy (2018), in collaboration with Rui da Paz. He has been the featured artist in residence with BananaJam Art Space (2017) in Shenzhen, China, and the CEAC (2018), at Vila Nova da Barquinha, Portugal. He was also the winner of the Arte Jovem 2017 prize, awarded by Carpe Diem Art and Research + Millenium Bcp Foundation.
Fernão Cruz exhibits regularly since 2015, and his work is represented in many public and private art collections, such as the Contemporary Art Collection of the State of Portugal, António Cachola Collection, Art Collection of the EDP Foundation, Norlinda e José Lima Collection, Figueiredo Ribeiro Collection, PLMJ Foundation.
