Fredi Casco

Born in 1967 in Paraguay
Lives and works in Asunción, Paraguay

In his work, he deals with the communications media, technical reproduc(t)ibility, popular and native culture, religiosity, and psychoanalysis. He holds a revisionist stance vis-á -vis the narrative of tradition and power present in different local, popular and religious, visual and iconographic, displays. Through subtle transgressions and a great deal of irony, he examines the apparent transparency and neutrality of different media such as television and photography. His work constantly explores the limits between the so-called high culture and popular culture, and the tensions between official history and its “minor” documents. Casco reveals the imaginaries and cultural consumption of contexts shaped by post-colonial conditions, as is the case with Paraguay.

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Solo Exhibitions
2011 – Operaciones y Ceremonias – CAV/ Museo del Barro. Asunción, Paraguay
2011 – Malavisión – Galería Monocromo. Asunción, Paraguay
2009 – Museo de la Justicia y la Memoria – Asunción, Paraguay
2008 – FVD – Galería Planta Alta. Asunción, Paraguay.
2006 – El Retorno de los Brujos Vol.1 – Centro Cultural Cabildo. Asunción, Paraguay
2001 – La Carne Fluorescente – Galería PANCHO FIERRO. Lima, Perú
2000 – La Carne Fluorescente – Fabrica Galeria de Arte. Asunción, Paraguay

Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2012 – Identity: Latin American and Caribe Photography – Korea Foundation Cultural Center. Seoul, Korea
2011 – Vrai ou Faux? – 8 V Salon. Hamburg, Germany
2011 – Visuals Correspondences with Marcelo Brodsky – CEC Rosario. Argentina
2010 – Ghost Chaco – Migliorisi Foundation. Asunción, Paraguay
2010 – Paraguay Esquivo – Festival de L’imaginaire. Paris, France
2009 – 1st Chile Triennial. Santiago, Chile
2009 – 10th Havana Biennial. Havana, Cuba
2009 – 2nd Thessaloniki Biennial. Greece
2007 – Sutil Violento – Itaú Cultural. 1st Latin American Photography Forum of Sao Paulo. Brazil
2007 – Positions in Context – Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation. Miami, USA
2007 – Talking with friends – Y Gallery. New York, USA
2006 – El efecto Downey – Fundación Telefónica. Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006 – Persona – Galería Animal. Santiago, Chile
2006 – Another Product – Cornerhouse. Manchester, GB
2004 – I Biennial of Contemporary Art. Shumen, Bulgaria
2003 – Söders Internationella Konst Biennal (r). Stockholm, Sweden

Grants
2009 – Sejour Culture, Maison de Cultures du Monde. Paris, France
2007 – CIFO Grants Program for Emergin Artists. USA

Exhibitions as curador and other related activites
2009 – 2012  – Miembro del comité editorial de la revista sudamericana de fotografía Sueño de la Razón. Fundación Simón Patiño. Bolivia
2010 – Colloque La Mémoire et ses représentations esthétiques en Amérique Latine – Universidad Rennes 2. France
2009 – 2011 – Miembro del comité editorial de la revista sudamericana de fotografía Sueño de la Razón. Fundación Simón Patiño. Bolivia
2009 – Curador de la selección de videoarte paraguayo para el festival de video Experimenta. Bogotá, Colombia
2008 – 2010 – Co-fundador El Ojo Salvaje / Mes de la Fotografía en Paraguay, Paraguay
2000 – 2010 – Co-Director de Ediciones de la Ura
2007 – Co-curador de Ahechá/ Videoarte de Paraguay. Festival LOOP. Barcelona, Spain
2006 – Curador de la selección de videoarte paraguayo en la Muestra Euroamericana de cine, video y arte digital (MEACVAD). Buenos Aires. Argentina
2003 – Curador independiente de artes visuales en el Centro Cultural Cencar