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Francisco Osório
Visual Artist - www.franciscosorio.com
Lisbon, Portugal
Born in 1987, Lisbon, Portugal. Francisco currently lives and works in Lisbon. He works in different media such as photography, installation, documental video, performance and painting. Francisco is undertaking a photography course at Atelier de Lisboa, in Portugal, since the beginning of the current year. Osorio did an MA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts, in London between 2015/16 and he also graduated in architecture from Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa, in Portugal, in 2013, having done Erasmus for one year in Milan. He also frequented Ar.Co - Centro de Artes & Comunicação Visual in Portugal between 2011/13. Francisco's work has been exhibited at Experimento, Madrid, Spain; TAL Gallery, Cascais, Portugal; Foco Gallery, Lisboa, Portugal, Cookhouse Gallery, London, UK; Punctum, London, UK; Mills Centre Gallery, London, UK; Palácio da Trindade, Lisboa, Portugal; Museu Bordalo Pinheiro, Lisboa, Portugal; Galeria Contempo, Lisboa, Portugal; Centro Cultural de Cascais, Cascais, Portugal.
  Looking at a random object and highlighting its existence is the basis of my practice. After collect the objects from somewhere, I do consider the action of placing them in my studio an important part of the process - the objects lose their sense of randomness and abandonment to start a dialogue between themselves and the surrounding space. My practice is strongly attached to the idea of 'on-going' work. I tend to focus my energy on the process and it's performative act. Across my series of works I am creating a dialogue between weight and lightness, unrefined and delicate, opacity and translucence, order and chaos when using handmade and/ or industrial objects. The playfulness or humor may sometimes be clouded by a certain feeling of melancholy.