With a dense stylistic trait that runs throughout the most diverse media and formal outcomes, Deyson Gilbert has a body of work that includes objects, sculptures, installations, videos, photographs, paintings, engravings, texts, propositions and performances. Through the combination of collected everyday elements–sometimes radically banal or radically hermetic–the artist reconstitutes points of tension within the collective social imaginary in unexpected solutions, which are as precarious as they are complex. In doing so, he welds together ideas and speculations about specific themes of the image economy of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Read MoreFrom functional materiality to conceptual formulation, Deyson brings together tools, objects, fabrics, systems, symbols and dogmas in visually powerful operations, which are overloaded with uncountable semantic threads. As in the chiaroscuro strategy, with every move the artist exposes and conceals themes, ideas and opinions, which hark back to the canons of art history, western philosophy and political science, as well as to the depths of occultism, popular beliefs and subterranean narratives.
Deyson Gilbert (São José do Egito, Brazil, 1985) lives and works in Sao Paulo.
His most recent solo exhibitions include DCVXVI, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2014); The State of the Art, Galeria Elba Benítez, Madri (2013).
Additionally, his work has been included in institutional group exhibitions as AI-5 50 ANOS – Ainda não terminou de acabar, Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo (2018); Jogo De Forças, Paço Das Artes, São Paulo (2016); Here There, Qatar Museum – Al Riwaq, Doha (2015); Imagine Brazil, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (2013/2014) / Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal (2015) / Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo (2015); 33º Panorama da Arte Brasileira, Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo (2013); Mitologias/Mythologies, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2011).
Text courtesy Mendes Wood DM.
