Pedro Neves Marques
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Human-crafted. AI-refined.This conceptual artwork uses a minimalist, text-based approach to explore complex ideas around sex, care, and their intersections. The triptych format presents a series of contrasting statements, inviting the viewer to contemplate the nuanced relationships between intimacy, vulnerability, and social dynamics. Through the sparse yet evocative language, the artist seems to suggest that sex can serve as a form of care, particularly in times of crisis, blurring the boundaries between friends and enemies. The work also touches on the notion of polyamory, hinting at alternative models of human connection. Overall, the piece encourages reflection on the diverse functions and meanings of sex and care in contemporary society. ...
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Pedro Neves Marques
1984 , PortugueseFilmmaker, visual artist and writer, Pedro Neves Marques’ work employs science fiction and dystopia as a lens through which to explore ideas of anthropology and nature. Their practice sits across both narrative films and short stories, and theoretical essays focused on art, anthropology and cinema. The artist is particularly interested in notions of ‘cosmopolitics’, robotics and ecology, with films centring on subjects such as plant transgenics in Brazilian plantations – in The Pudic Relation Between Machine and Plant, (2016) – and, in Aedes Aegypti (2017), genetically modified mosquitoes, developed in the UK and deployed to seduce and combat the invasive, disease-spreading species of the same name. ...