Associate Artist Filipe Vilas-Boas - OVNi 2026

Filipe Vilas-Boas cultivates a practice situated at the confluence of digital art, installation, and performance. His protean inquiries, oscillating between poetic gesture and conceptual stimuli, scrutinize our technological modalities and their subsequent ethical, social, and aesthetic implications.

Our collaboration originated in dialogue—a convergence of probabilities and artistic openings that harmonized with our vision of the OVNi Biennial as a contemporary agora.

It thus appeared self-evident to place the RE:PUBLIC project at the heart of this 2026 edition. A monumental hemispherical sculpture conceived as a public square, the work mirrors the very essence of our existence: it invites a collective quest for equilibrium by reenacting our cultural and political bonds—a shared state that encompasses the social body in its entirety.