Gabriel Abrantes: ‘Os Humores Artificiais (Artificial Humours)’
Gabriel Abrantes, Os Humores Artificiais (Artificial Humours), 2016. Single-channel video, stereo sound, S16mm transferred to 2K, 29 min 4 sec. All rights reserved by the artist.
About the Film
Os Humores Artificiais presents a form of kinship that expands beyond the human realm. Blending traditions inherent in stand-up comedy and documentary, the film follows a young indigenous girl from the Xingu National Park to São Paulo, Brazil. There, she falls in love with ‘Andy Coughman’, a flying robot modeled after René Magritte’s spherical bells.
About the Artist
Gabriel Abrantes (b.1984; based in Lisbon, Portugal) is an artist whose films have premiered at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs and Semaine de la Critique – Cannes, Berlinale, Locarno Film Festival, the Venice Biennale, and the Toronto International Film Festival. Abrantes’s films have been distinguished with awards including the Grand Prix at the Semaine de la Critique, the EFA prize at Berlinale, the Golden Leopard at Locarno Film Festival and the EDP Young Artist Award. His work has been exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery, London; Tate Modern, London; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston; Kunst Werke, Berlin; and Serralves Museum, Porto. He participated in the 32nd São Paulo Biennial, the 2016 Bienal Tropical, and the 2014 Bienal d’Image Mouvement.
About EMAP x FRIEZE FILM SEOUL
For the third year in a row, Frieze Film returns to Frieze Seoul 2024. This year’s programme is presented in partnership with Ewha Media Art Presentation (EMAP) and is on view from 2 – 6 September at Ewha Womans University and online at frieze.com.
Curated by Joowon Park and Valentine Umansky, this year’s programme is titled ‘All that Weaves the Universe: Of Quantum Entanglements’. It brings together time-based media works of 37 international artists, unfolding under eight chapters.
