Bio
Born on the vibrant shores of Rio de Janeiro (1991), Renato França transcends borders as a visual artist and photographer, now based in Barcelona. His journey emerges from the tension between economic constraints and social complexities, forging an acute sensibility during a childhood marked by identity conflicts in vulnerable terrain.
A diagnosis of keratoconus in adolescence did not diminish her gaze, but rather redefined it. The premature loss of her father at 16 catalysed her search for emancipation and new ways of existing. Through education, he found transformation, completing his academic training (undergraduate, postgraduate and masters) before the age of 23, driven by the urgency and desire to break oppressive patterns.
“His artistic journey is a mosaic of fluid identities, woven across continents and perspectives”.
His flâneur spirit led him through transnational experiences, weaving a mosaic of fluid identities across continents. Therapeutic processes revealed layers of his history, nourishing his artistic research centred on photography and audiovisual languages.
Today, between silence and solitude in Barcelona, Renato intertwines spatial phenomenology and fragmented identities. His work translates the unspeakable through expanded visual expressions, transforming visual limitations into creative power, where memory, displacement and marginality dialogue in a singular visual poetics that transforms physical restrictions into possibilities of creation and rescue of memory.
Renato França
My photographic practice emerges from a context of intersections between personal experiences, processes of subjectivisation and research focused on what is revealed at the limits of the image.