Lourenço Soares

about

Lourenço Soares (born in Lisbon, lives in Zurich) is a research-based artist working with epistemic ecologies. His work is informed by speculative fiction and deconstruction and focuses on the ways western knowledge represents nature. Understanding natural history as a political tool in the Western project of domination and control over nature, Soares analyses the history of ideas to trace the relationships between science and politics. Lourenço Soares uses different mediums — like video, 3d animation, and drawing — and is influenced by scientific illustration and knowledge visualization.

Besides an artistic practice, Soares has been engaged in curatorial projects. He was founder and co-curator of Dietikon Projektraum, an exhibition space dedicated to contemporary art that organizes exhibitions and discussions which starts from local narratives to address global complexities.

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