Bio

 

Rômulo Avi is a Brazilian multi-disciplinary artist based in London, UK and São Paulo, Brazil.

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His practice is grounded in material experimentation as a means of thinking through image-making, memory, and transformation — evoking imagined landscapes and emotional states shaped by his ongoing research in philosophy, myth, and literature.

Through a layered process of brushing, sanding, digging, coating, and erasure, Avi treats the surface as an active site of negotiation: a place where forms are continuously revealed, obscured, and reconfigured. Each work emerges through a dialogue between intention and contingency, where the act of making remains open, indeterminate, and responsive to the material’s own agency.​

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Representation in Avi’s practice functions less as depiction than as orientation. Figures and motifs are distilled toward archetypal forms, acting as navigational markers within transitional landscapes that bridge materiality and transcendence. These spaces resist fixed meaning, instead offering viewers a contemplative field in which symbolism is diluted, reconfigured, and reactivated. Through this process, Avi constructs visual territories that feel both ancient and emergent — anchored in material process while open to speculative and poetic readings.

 

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Education

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2022 – City & Guilds London Art School (CGLAS), MA Fine Art

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2020 – The Florence Academy of Art (FAA), Advanced Drawing and Painting Programme

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2017 – PUCCAMP, BA Architecture and Urban Planning