Maurício Chades

Maurício Chades is an artist and filmmaker from Brazil. His works, in film, installation, sculpture, and performance, speculate about anticolonial symbiotic futures and queer ecologies. Envisioning (...) syntropic environments and multispecies alliances, his art practice combines storytelling with restorative agriculture, composting, and fungiculture. He holds a BA in Cinema Studies, an MA in Art and Technology from the University of Brasilia, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He participated in collective groups such as Espaço AVI, Kinofogo Cineclube, and NINHO - Collective for Research in Art, Interactivity, and Agroecology. His works were shown worldwide, like at Queer Lisbon, Curitiba International Film Festival, and FILE – Electronic Language International Festival. In 2019, he presented his first solo show, Pyramid, Urubu, at The Brasilia Digital TV Tower, receiving the Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards in 2022. For Green Cemetery (2023, Chades was featured at the Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil and awarded the first prize of the e-flux Film Award. Currently, Chades is working on his first feature film, COGUM.