Victor Mattina (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1985).
Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. The artist’s practice is centered in painting and video, often emanating from the unstable interfaces where technical images encounter human perception. At the core of his research lies a fascination with the indexical relationships produced by apparatuses, the ways machines register the world and how we in turn learn to see through these mediated traces. His approach reflects upon technical images as artifacts shaped by biases, blind spots and protocols of the devices that generate them.
In recent years, Mattina has focused on inducing deliberate errors in machine-based image generation systems, treating their mechanical misreadings and hallucinations as both method and subject. By forcing these pattern-interpreting machines to deviate from their prescribed functions, he reveals their fractures, opacity and a strange potential to dream outside intention. His current work explores these ruptures as ontological interpretations of algorithmic failure where the error is not a defect, but a site of ambiguity and spectral possibility.
EDUCATION:
2024-25_ Postgraduate in Literature, Art and Philosophy, PUCRS, Brazil.
2008_ Baccalaureate in Design, ESPM-RJ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
RESIDENCIES:
2020_ Artist Opportunity Residency Fellowship — Vermont Studio Center — Johnson, VT, USA.
2019_ 2nd Edition of the Artistic Residency Soy Loco Por Ti Juquery — Curated by Arturo Gamero — Juquery Hospital Complex, Franco da Rocha — São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
2017_ 4th Edition of the Artistic Residencies Award — Curated by Moacir dos Anjos — Fundação Joaquim Nabuco — Recife, PE Brazil.
2016_ 6th Edition of the Pampulha grant — Curated by Cauê Alves — Pampulha Art Museum — Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
SOLO SHOWS:
2024_ excessiveness — poem by Flávio Morgado — Gallery Marcelo Guarnieri — São Paulo, Brazil.
2023_ As soon as it saw everything that wasn’t — Curated by Fernanda Lopes — Athena Gallery — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2021_ point-zero/point-nil — Curated by Luisa Duarte — Marcelo Guarnieri Gallery — São Paulo, Brazil.
2017_ Before the Forum — Curated by Evangelina Seiler, Paço Imperial — Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
2012_ Delta — Cosmocopa Arte Contemporânea — Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
2010_ Body Double — Pequena Galeria, UCAM — Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
GROUP SHOWS:
2023_ SORRY CAPS — Ainda — São Paulo, Brazil.
2023_ Linen Anniversary — Curated by Bruno Miguel and Luiz Ernesto — Ateliê Casa Alta — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2022_ Unidentified Object — Curated by Luisa Duarte and Victor Gorgulho — Galeria Athena — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2021_ Fissure — Galeria Portas Vilaseca — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2020_ Animal — Marcelo Guarnieri Gallery — São Paulo, Brazil.
2019_ Antes Tarde Duke Nukem — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2018_ Urgent Reports — Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel Gallery — São Paulo, Brazil.
2017_ The Light that Veils the Body is the Same that Unveils the Canvas — Curated by Bruno Miguel — Caixa Cultural, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2016_ x4 — Curated by Marcelo Campos e Efrain Almeida — Solar Grandjean de Montigny, PUC-Rio — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2016_ Abre Alas 12 — Curated by André Sheik, Adriana Varejão and Paula Borghi — A Gentil Carioca Gallery — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2015_ More Painting — Sesc Quitandinha — Petrópolis, Brazil.
2014_ More Painting — EAV Parque Lage — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2013_ More Paintinga — Federal Justice Cultural Center — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2013_ Tropical Malady — Central Bank Cultural Center — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2013_ Follow the White Rabbit — Germanic Cultural Institute — Niterói, Brazil.
2012_ Atemporal — Atemporal Space — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2018_ MARCONDES, Guilherme. Arte e Consagração: os jovens artistas da arte contemporânea. Rio de Janeiro, 2018. Tese (Doutorado em Sociologia) – Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Sociais, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, RJ.
2016_ Catalogue for the 6th Edition of the Pampulha Fellowship — Pampulha Art Museum — Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
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