Gabriel Abrantes

GALERIA FRANCISCO FINO

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Gabriel Abrantes (North Carolina, USA, 1984) lives and works in New York and Lisbon.
He has regularly shown his work at museums such as Salzburger Kunstverein (Salzburg), Tate Britain (London), Tate Modern (London), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), MIT List Visual Arts Center (Boston), Kunst-Werke (Berlin), ICA (London), Lincoln Center (NY), Caixa Forum (Madrid), CAM Gulbenkian (Lisbon), amongst others. He received the EDP Young Artists Award (2009), the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival (2010), and the EFA Award at the Berlin Film Festival (2014 and 2016).
Abrantes’ films confront historical, social and political themes through an investigation of post-colonial, gender and identity questions. Building on the appropriation of Hollywood genres, such as the melodrama, romantic comedies, the war film, etc., and stirring it with a familiar archive of symbolic references, popular culture and contemporary anxieties, Abrantes challenges the way these visual narratives have shaped a common take on History.