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Ricardo Vilas Freire is a Brazilian interdisciplinary artist whose work intervents, bridges, corresponds, depicts, scores, and constructs perceptions of human interaction in social spaces. Investigating what composes daily landscapes and the implications of accumulation, he arranges entire systems under unstable arrangements that tend to fall apart or become imperceptible. In approaching the gap between expected and presented space, the artist reveals perfection as a strikingly absurd concept, highlighting the inevitability of failure and the tragic comedy in witnessing an action. Thinking compositionally and working in collaboration allows the artist to score situations where embodying a site-specific task distorts the etiquette within environments while pointing to their existence. The building of both performances, paintings, and objects becomes a conversation between the reality of materials with their natural working logic and the human ability to hold meaning of these definite moments. The immediate environment exists as a constant collaborator, with the artist creating relational objects meant to interact with what surrounds the circumstances. Through representation, he attempts to magnify ordinary human gestures that interact with a world serving material hazards while being constantly transformed and dismembered.