HERNÂNI REIS BAPTISTADog Eat Dog

"Dog Eat Dog", by Hernâni Reis Baptista, is an installation that starts literally on the ground, united by a single colour, a base for the remaining works. The show, which includes a video, sculptures, objects and multiple images, seeks to define a territory where a vanishing point is given to the use of the viewer. There is a becoming abstraction of the space itself, which loses its identity, accepting multiple entities and therefore transforming itself into something different. It's about exchanges: the artist with his dog, the movable with the unchangeable, the waste with the richness of the world. This is an exhibition still in progress. Even after abandoning it and following its steps everywhere. Between the domestic and the wild, what is produced here, above all, the attempt to make a show happen as a pure colour, that howls, barks, snarls, shows its teeth and, hopefully, bites where it hurts the most.
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Hernâni Reis Baptista (Vila do Conde, 1986) lives and works in Porto. He graduated in Visual Arts - Multimedia, at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto, where he was awarded with the acquisition prize in the graduation show, in 2013. He has been showing regularly since 2011, including the group exhibitions “CAVE”, at SOLAR, Cinematic Art Gallery, (Vila do Conde, 2012), “Sem Quartel”, at Sismógrafo (Porto, 2014), “SVEART” Saint Vincent European Art (Italy, 2012), “Terreno”, at Kubik Gallery (Porto, 2013) and “Tarmacadame” (Porto, 2016), amongst others. His solo exhibitions include “Mesa” and “Falha” at Espaço Campanhã (Porto, 2011 and 2013), “Tropismos” at Espaço Vésta (Porto, 2015), “T-1000” at Floating Islands, Maus hábitos (Porto, 2015) and "Intraduzibilidade, Untranslatability, Unübersetzbarkeit” at Klub Genau, included in the art festival “KARAT, the ocean and the river” (Cologne, 2013). He also participated in artist residencies such as the "360º Context and Process", by the Triangle Network in space Hangar (Lisbon, 2015). 
Hernâni Reis Baptista works mainly with installation, sculpture, video, and various digital processes.