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Filipe Afonso L'Inhumain (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Fonds D'Art Moderne Et Contemporain De Montoluço, Montoluço.
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Filipe Afonso L'Inhumain (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Fonds D'Art Moderne Et Contemporain De Montoluço, Montoluço.
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Filipe Afonso L'Inhumain (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Fonds D'Art Moderne Et Contemporain De Montoluço, Montoluço.
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Filipe Afonso 'Untitled' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Fonds D'Art Moderne Et Contemporain De Montoluço, Montoluço.
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Filipe Afonso 'A Moral Question' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Fonds D'Art Moderne Et Contemporain De Montoluço, Montoluço.
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Filipe Afonso 'Untitled' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Fonds D'Art Moderne Et Contemporain De Montoluço, Montoluço.
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Filipe Afonso 'Feelings' + 'A Completely New Market' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Fonds D'Art Moderne Et Contemporain De Montoluço, Montoluço.
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Filipe Afonso 'Smart Aubergines' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Fonds D'Art Moderne Et Contemporain De Montoluço, Montoluço.
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Filipe Afonso 'Victory Over the Sun II' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Fonds D'Art Moderne Et Contemporain De Montoluço, Montoluço.
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Filipe Afonso 'The Age of Restoration' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Fonds D'Art Moderne Et Contemporain De Montoluço, Montoluço.
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Filipe Afonso 'Total Equality' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Fonds D'Art Moderne Et Contemporain De Montoluço, Montoluço.
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Filipe Afonso 'Untitled' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Fonds D'Art Moderne Et Contemporain De Montoluço, Montoluço.
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Filipe Afonso 'Cosmic Anxiety II' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Fonds D'Art Moderne Et Contemporain De Montoluço, Montoluço.
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Re-purposed fragments + cosmic anxiety: Filipe Afonso’s version of posterity and malfunction in L’Inhumain

, 1 December 2017
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Filipe Afonso presented solo exhibition L’Inhumain at Montluçon’s Fonds D’Art Moderne Et Contemporain De Montoluçon which opened October 7 and ran to November 5.

Filipe Afonso, ‘A Moral Question’ (2017). Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Fonds D’Art Moderne Et Contemporain De Montoluço, Montoluço.

The installation brings together video and sculptural elements and re-purposes found objects and life’s fragments, including a vacuum bag, inkjet print on paper, rope, a Furby robot, dead plants and towels with image transfers to name a few.

Exploring humanity, its limits and the concept of future posterity, the show explores contemporary anxiety, or “cosmic anxiety.” Preservation, transhumanism, malfunction, consequence and the desire for growth are all theories touched upon in the press release which contextualises the motives behind the work.**

Filipe Afonso’s L’Inhumain  solo exhibition was on at Montluçon’s Fonds D’Art Moderne Et Contemporain De Montoluçon, running October 7 to November 5, 2017.

 

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