Hugo Brazão is a visual artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture, and textile-based installation. Born in Madeira Island and based in Lisbon, his work explores the intersection between fiction and reality, often unfolding as immersive spatial compositions that challenge linear narratives and propose alternative temporalities. Using materials such as textiles, wood, pigment, and found objects, Brazão constructs vibrant, layered environments that blur the boundaries between drawing, object, and space.
Storytelling, play, and the aesthetics of displacement are central to his work. Humor, color, and distortion function as tools of both disruption and care—strategies through which he reimagines how bodies, identities, and spaces relate. Whether through sculptural fragments or full-room installations, his practice offers portals into speculative, sometimes absurd worlds that invite both contemplation and disorientation.
Brazão holds an MA from the Royal College of Art in London and has exhibited widely in Portugal and the UK. His work reflects an ongoing interest in how fictional visual languages can be used to question dominant narratives and propose new modes of relation—particularly in dialogue with print culture, queer imagination, and the politics of display.