Henrique Pavão
Henrique Pavão (Lisbon, 1991) lives and works in Lisbon.
His work is focused on issues of entropy, loss, anachronism, story-telling and temporality, reflecting an interest and use of the archaeology of conceptual movements, connected to a sophisticated, poetical and cinematic use of processes. His work circles through different media (sculpture, film / video, photography and sound) often with a concern for each medium’s specific processes and mechanisms, taken as the mark of its temporality or even its history.
Pavão has studied Sculpture in Faculty of Fine Arts Lisbon and obtained his Masters in Fine Arts from the Malmö Art Academy in 2016 (Professor Joachim Koester). He received grants from FLAD (2022), Marcelino Botín Foundation (2021), Royal Academy of Arts Stockholm (2016), and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2015). In 2016, he was awarded with the Edstrandska Stiftelsens Prize and shortlisted for the Novo Banco Revelação Award from the Serralves Foundation. In 2019, Pavão was shortlisted for the 13th edition of the EDP Foundation’s New Artists Award.
The following exhibitions can be highlighted: Itinerarios XXVIII (Botín Centre, Santander, 2023), Oxymoron (Kindred Spirit, Lisbon, 2023), The.D.E.A.D.Man (Appleton Box, Lisbon, 2022), Sea of Tranquility (Frame Section – Frieze New York, 2021), RED FLOWER (Galeria Bruno Múrias, Lisbon, 2021), Prémio Novos Artistas Fundação EDP (MAAT – Museu de Arte Arquitetura e Tecnologia, Lisbon, 2019), Unfinished Past (revisited) (CAV – Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, 2020), Depois do Estouro (Galeria Municipal do Porto, 2019), Almodôvar Mirror-Site (SE8 Gallery, London 2019), Now I Became Aged (UMA LULIK_, Lisbon, 2018), Anozero – Bienal de Coimbra (Coimbra, 2017), antes e depois de antes (Culturgest, Porto, 2017), Wherever I am not is the Place Where I am Myself (Appleton Square, Lisbon, 2017), Fallen Between Cracks (KHM Gallery, Malmö, 2016) and at the Royal Academy of Arts (Stockholm, 2016), among others.
Pavão’s work is represented in institutional collections such as Portuguese State Contemporary Art Collection; MAAT / EDP Foundation Collection; EGEAC/CML Collection; Rialto6 Collection; Santander Consumer Collection; MACE – António Cachola Collection; Leal Rios Foundation, among others.
HENRIQUE PAVÃO
HEAVY METAL
2024
Gebel Kamil iron meteorite (provenance: Al Wadi al Jadid, Egypt, 2009 (276,07gr) – IMCA#2093 – GMA #0052, Gebel Kamil iron meteorite (provenance: Al Wadi al Jadid, Egypt, 2009 (341,27gr) – IMCA#2093 – GMA #0052, (2x) Flyht Pro Rack 20U Slide Shock (modified), (2x) magnetic boards, 800W stage monitor, sound (“Summertime” by George Gershwin played on Theremin with iron meteorites (one for each hand), continuous loop).
Variable dimensions
HENRIQUE PAVÃO
HEAVY METAL
2024
Gebel Kamil iron meteorite (provenance: Al Wadi al Jadid, Egypt, 2009 (276,07gr) – IMCA#2093 – GMA #0052, Gebel Kamil iron meteorite (provenance: Al Wadi al Jadid, Egypt, 2009 (341,27gr) – IMCA#2093 – GMA #0052, (2x) Flyht Pro Rack 20U Slide Shock (modified), (2x) magnetic boards, 800W stage monitor, sound (“Summertime” by George Gershwin played on Theremin with iron meteorites (one for each hand), continuous loop).
Variable dimensions
HENRIQUE PAVÃO
HEAVY METAL
2024
Gebel Kamil iron meteorite (provenance: Al Wadi al Jadid, Egypt, 2009 (276,07gr) – IMCA#2093 – GMA #0052, Gebel Kamil iron meteorite (provenance: Al Wadi al Jadid, Egypt, 2009 (341,27gr) – IMCA#2093 – GMA #0052, (2x) Flyht Pro Rack 20U Slide Shock (modified), (2x) magnetic boards, 800W stage monitor, sound (“Summertime” by George Gershwin played on Theremin with iron meteorites (one for each hand), continuous loop).
Variable dimensions
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It’s Not Going to Stop
2024
Silver gelatine print on paper, rosewood
76,2 x 51,2 cm
3 + 2 PA
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The Ultimate Romance
2023
HD video (color, sound, 4’29’’, loop), bronze, vitrine
Variable dimensions
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Waiting Around to Die
2024
Bronze, instrument cable (6mm x 100m)
Variable dimensions
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Waiting Around to Die
2024
Bronze, instrument cable (6mm x 100m)
Variable dimensions
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The Ultimate Romance
2023
HD video (color, sound, 4’29’’, loop), bronze, vitrine
Variable dimensions
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Moonshine
2023
Silver extract from 35 mm film
20 x 20 x 10 cm
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Moonshine (detail)
2023
Silver extract from 35 mm film
20 x 20 x 10 cm
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Ecdysis (extraction of silver from films, photographed with a roll of film containing silver, that was developed in the same tank where the silver was extracted, and which will generate the next silver extraction)
2022
Silver gelatin print
(6x) 51,6 x 36,2 cm
Ed. 3 + 2 AP
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The World Beneath the City
2023
Video HD (color, sound, continuous loop)
Variable dimensions
Ed. 3 + 2 AP
Sound Mix & Master: Pedro Abecasis
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The.D.E.A.D.Man
2022
Light projector, mdf, glass, nux loop core, fender champion 40 – amplifier [sound, 6 hours and 1 minute of The Deadman Theme (1995) by Neil Young, loop]
Ed.1 + 1 AP
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The.D.E.A.D.Man
2022
Light projector, mdf, glass, nux loop core, fender champion 40 – amplifier [sound, 6 hours and 1 minute of The Deadman Theme (1995) by Neil Young, loop]
Ed.1 + 1 AP
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Sea of Tranquility
2021
Bronze, iron, steel, wood, 16mm film projector, looper, 16mm film (b/w, silent, 2’25”, loop)
Variable dimensions
Ed. 5 + 1 AP
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Sea of Tranquility
2021
Bronze, iron, steel, wood, 16mm film projector, looper, 16mm film (b/w, silent, 2’25”, loop)
Variable dimensions
Ed. 5 + 1 AP
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RED FLOWER
Exhibition view
Galeria BRUNO MÚRIAS, 2021
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Red Flower #2
2021
Terracotta, ashes, glass, rammed earth
140 x 28 x 28 cm
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Red Flower #3
2021
Terracotta, ashes, glass, rammed earth
140 x 28 x 28 cm
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Shoshanna
2021
Kodak Carousel S-AV slide projector, slide (35mm, colour), rammed earth (5 units)
Ed. 3 + 1 PA
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Junkspace not Always Recovers from You
2020
2-channel video installation (16mm film transferred to digital, b/w, silent, 2’12”, loop)
Ed. 5 + 1 AP
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Back to Alone
2020
Inkjet print on cotton paper 320 gr.
120 x 180 cm
Ed. 3 + 1 AP
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The Eternity of the City
2020
Inkjet print on cotton paper 320 gr.
29 x 21 cm (x8)
Ed. 3 + 1 AP
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The Eternity of the City
2020
Inkjet print on cotton paper 320 gr.
29 x 21 cm (x8)
Ed. 3 + 1 AP
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Apollo
2019
Overhead projector, Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks – Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois & Roger Eno (Extended Edition) 1983, magic lantern glass slide, bronze
Variable dimensions
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One Last Longing
2020
HD Video (b/w & color, sound)
8’18”
Ed. 5 + 1 AP
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Apollo
2019
Overhead projector, Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks – Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois & Roger Eno (Extended Edition) 1983, magic lantern glass slide, bronze
Variable dimensions
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Hotel Palenque (Fossil)
2019
Inkjet print on japanese paper 70 gr.
70 x 108, 3 cm
Ed. 3 + 1 AP
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The Lost Longing for Existence
2019
35 mm slides (2 sets of 31), black and white and color, loop; 35 mm slide, black and white; three slide projectors Super 8 film transferred to digital video, black and white, silent, 2’ 31’’, loop; video monitor, 2 vinyl records, 12 in, 33 1/3 RPM, sound, 21’ 28’’, loop; two record players, heating lamp, concrete and iron
Variable dimensions
Ed. 1 + 1 AP
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Witness (antes e depois de antes)
2019
Inkjet print on cotton paper 320 gr., paper sheet
97 x 130 cm; 29,7 x 21 cm
3 + 1 AP
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Now I Became Aged
2018
HD Video (b/w, silent, continuous)
Ed. 5 + 1 AP
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Absence Reminders
2017
Inkjet print on cotton paper 320gr, iron, obsidian
27 x 20 cm (x 36)
Installation view AnoZero’17 (Coimbra biennial)
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To Erase Time one Requires Mirrors, not Rocks
2018
Inkjet print
29 x 21 cm (each)
3 + 1 AP
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The Future is but the Obsolete in Reverse
2018
35 mm slide (black and white); slide projector, vinyl record, 12 in, 33 1/3 RPM, sound, 10’ 00 ‘’, loop; record player, iron
Variable dimensions
Ed. 3 + 1 AP
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Almodôvar Mirror-Site
2016
35 mm slides (2 sets of 80) color, loop; two slide projectors, sound, 24’47’’, loop, text
Variable dimensions
1 + 1 AP
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antes e depois de antes
2017
Asphalt, wood, real-time video circuit, 15-channel video installation, video loop
Variable dimensions
1 + 1 AP
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Almodôvar Mirror-Site
2016
35 mm slides (2 sets of 80) color, loop; two slide projectors, sound, 24’47’’, loop, text
Variable dimensions
1 + 1 AP
