ANDREW PURVIS
Andrew Purvis is an Australian artist and curator whose work encompasses writing about art, curating, and his own artistic practice; he has also worked as an exhibition curator.
Purvis is also the co-founder of the Department of Non-Corporeal Affairs, a project that blends research, participatory art, and community concerns, exploring spaces of conviviality, memories, and the threshold between the tangible and the intangible.
@ANDREW_SHEFFER_PURVIS
2025
HOPE
The artwork was constructed from materials found on the walls of Buenos Aires streets. The frame was also repurposed for the work. Therefore, both the materials and the ideas were available for anyone who saw them to propose a reassembly, which the artist then carried out. Everything that was found was reused for a different purpose within a poetics that, based on the concept of reusing materials, makes extensive use of improvisation and intuition. In this aspect, torn papers, collage, pages from travel diaries, words and phrases collected from various locations, and even Spanish words unknown to the artist, are mixed with the names of popular saints in a free dialogue between what some consider sacred and the profane, in a permanent interplay of color and form.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio | @oscardambrosioinsta
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VISUAL ARTS
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ANDREW
Dyslexia has developed in me an exaggerated appreciation for color and shape.
