Ícaro Lira

Born in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil, 1986.
Lives and works in São Paulo-SP.

Visual artist, editor and researcher, with research developed under the experimental documentary. Lira studied Cinema and Video at Casa Amarela-UFC, Fortaleza, CE, Installation and Sound Editing, at Instituto de Cinema Darcy Ribeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ and at Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, participated in the Programs Fundamentação e Aprofundamento. Currently participates in the PIMASP – Art Museum Independent Program of São Paulo (SP).

For the past five years, Lira has been analysing the implications and the development of political and historical acts of Brazilian history through documental works, archivist, archeological and fiction. His exhibitions present similar structures to ‘museums’, reuniting several forgotten fragments, and producing a system of objects which articulates artistic and non-artistic materials and a set of actions, not necessarily confined to an artistic object, but scattered in exhibitions, books, studios, debates, walks etc.

EXHIBITIONS
2015
– Campo Geral. Central Galeria de Arte. São Paulo-SP.
Curated by Marta Ramos-Yzquierdo.
– Museu Do Estrangeiro.
Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade. São Paulo-SP.
Curated by Marta Mestre.
2014
– Projeto Popular, Controle Social e Isolamento.
Centro Cultural Banco do Nordeste (CCBN). Fortaleza-CE.
Curated by Beatriz Lemos.
– Cidade Partida. Paço das Artes/USP. São Paulo-SP.
Curated by Paulo Miyada.
2013
– Desterro. Galeria IBEU. Rio de Janeiro-RJ.
Curated by Bernardo Mosqueira.
2012
– ROMARIA, Meu Corpo, Minha Embalagem, Todo Gasto na Viagem. Galeria SESC. Crato-Ceará.
Curated by Paula Borghi.

VIMEO /  Flickr / Entrevista / ISSUU / Youtube / Prêmio Pipa 2016  / Prêmio Pipa 2015