Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1992.
Lives and works in London, UK.
enorê is a visual artist with a degree in Painting from EBA-UFRJ and an MA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London. Their work investigates the relationship between the virtual, the temporal and materiality through clay and 3D technology. Resident at Somerset House Studios in London on a grant from the Jerwood Foundation, was recently awarded an Arts Council England Developing your Creative Practice grant.
enorê is a visual artist working with digital and material practices to examine the entanglements between virtuality and physical embodiment. Primarily working with 3D printed ceramics, they use clay as a catalyst to question how digital data can be mediated through physical processes, being interested in clay’s potentiality as a pervasive and highly temporal material. This is developed by exploring the fluidity between multiple realms, not only limited to physical or digital, and observing the shapes that the translations between these systems take. The reconfiguration of the virtual data body, now stripped of its flesh, into a physical existence in clay, points to a new type of matter: one which exists between the slippery gaps of translation, between virtual and physical, tangible and ethereal.
Some recent exhibitions include Poetics of Encryption at KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), Points of Return at Somerset House Studios (London) and Out of Scale/Data Dump Wundertüte at transmediale (Berlin). Recent commissions include Meta Open Arts, Contemporary And (C&) and The Public Statues and Sculpture Association (PSSA). They have previously facilitated workshops at the Victoria & Albert Museum, York Art Gallery and South London Gallery, and currently teach on the BA Fine Arts at Kingston University.
They’re currently an artist-in-residence at Somerset House Studios, supported by Jerwood Arts.
Education
2020 – MFA in Fine Arts, Goldsmiths, University of London
2017 – Bacharelado em Pintura, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Group exhibitions
2024 │Points of Return, Somerset House Studios, London, UK
– “Poetics of Encryption”, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlim, Alemanha
2023
– “Kenophobic Pantomimes”, Below Grand, Nova Iorque, EUA
– “Out of Scale”, transmediale festival, Berlim, Alemanha
– “Late Works: Preparations”, Cafe Oto, Londres, Reino Unido
2022 │Children of the Diaspora, 1-54 Art Fair, Somerset House, London, UK
– “PRONOUNced”, Phoenix Art Space, Brighton, UK
– “Equal quantities of everything”, The Baths, London, UK
– “Obscura Luz”, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
– “-topia”, Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK
– “if i were you”, Kupfer, Londres, Reino Unido
– “the grass below – above the vaulted sky”, Worlding, London, UK
– “Decomposição e Fetiche”, Fábrica Bhering, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2021
– “[semi]permeable”, Spoiler Zone, Berlin, Germany
– “Touch: The Politics of Physicality”, Hackney Downs Studios, London, UK
– “Scratching the Surface”, The Factory Project, London, UK
– “New Contemporaries”, Firstsite Gallery/South London Gallery, Colchester/London, UK
– “Digital Monsters”, USA/Online
– “Locus Amoenus”, The Function Suite, London, UK
– “Les Urbaines”, Lausanne
– “Digital Legacies”, Online
– “CIVA Festival”, Vienna/Online
2020
– “Wretched Light Industry”, Online
– “MADE IT 2020”, Short Supply, Salford/Online
– “Given to Chance”, Nomas* Projects, Dundee
– “Circa Art Class of 2020”, Piccadilly Lights, London, UK
2019
– “BBZ BLK BK”, Copeland Gallery, London, UK
– “It’s Waining Towards New Moon”, Ben Oakley Gallery, London, UK
2018
– “Manifesto Afrofuturista”, Caixa Preta, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Pouso de Emergência”, Caixa Preta, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Abre Alas 14”, A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Imersões Poéticas”, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– “Videoarte Agora”, A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2017
– “3X Pintura”, Centro de Artes Calouste Gulbekian, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2015
– “V Bienal EBA”, Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Lectures and workshops
2023
– Virtual Echoes, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
– 3D Scanning workshop, Rosehill Theatre, Whitehaven
– Digital Ceramic workshop, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
– 3D Ceramic Printing workshop, Somerset House Studios, London, UK
2022
– This Place of Mine Workshops, Future Everything, Grimsby
– 3D Scanning Workshop, York Art Gallery, York, UK
– 3D Scanning Workshop at Late Tate, Tate Britain, London, UK
– Workshop at Craft-tech Symposium, New Contempraries, South London Gallery, London, UK
2021
– Graduate Takeover: Technology hosted by Redeye, Fuse and Short Supply, Online
– Canas de Açúcar hosted by Mare Projects and Sugarcane Magazine, USA/Online
2020
– Curso de Formação de Mediadores Culturais, EBA, Rio de Janeiro/Online
– CIRCA Talk: Cauleen Smith, Zoé Whitley, Enorê & Elvira Dyangani Ose, UK/Online
– Tactics: Power and Play, Arebyte Gallery, Londres/Online
– Modes of resistance, 1-54 Art Fair / Sommerset House, London/Online
Commissions and grants
2023 – PSSA in the Community Commission, London, UK
2022 – Meta Open Arts Commission, London, UK
2022 – Black Artist Grant, Creative Debuts, London, UK
2022 – Contemporary And (C&) Latin America Digital Commissions, Germany/Online
2022 – Developing your Creative Practice, Arts Council England, UK
2020 – NEoN Emerging Artists’ Commission, Dundee
Residences
2022 – Somerset House Jerwood Residency, London, UK
2022 – Impossible Perspectives Lab, Abandon Normal Devices, Tatton Park
2021 – Kunstkollektivet 8B, Unnerud, Denmark
Teaching
2022-24 – Professor, BA Fine Arts, Kingston School of Art, London, UK
2022-23 – Professor convidado, MA Contemporary Art Practice, Royal College of Arts, London, UK
