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These works, many of them created for this exhibition, seek to highlight the way in which color materializes as an element of communication, energy transmission and cultural unification: throughout avaf's twenty years of activity, color has been used as a key element to generate intense artistic sensations. avaf, a collective known for its immersive installations where abundance dictates Dionysian experiences, includes among its practices an infinity of patterns, images, colors, and forms that dialogue with contemporary cultures, queer sensibility and politics.

The paints are mixed by hand to achieve the type of chromatic vibration perceived on the screens of electronic devices, seeking a relationship between the luminosity and surface effects of the digital colors and the material colors of the painted surfaces.

The forms, predominantly organic, evoke bodies, genitals, objects, animals, and plants announced in the titles; moreover, an obsession for sharp edges emerges, as the delineated areas of color do not blend into one another. The tones are deliberately ultra-matte, with the aim of concentrating the color experience without any intermediate barriers. In the absence of "obstacles" between the viewer's body and the color, the various contrasting tones, though contained within the contours of their shapes, flow beyond the pictorial boundaries. These tensions in the pictorial field are accentuated in certain works, where the forms extend in cut-outs beyond the supposed angular limits of the painting. Frames also play a crucial role: defying the expectation of a frame that implies a border, they play a more sculptural role.

avaf has recently inaugurated adora vanessa athena fantasia, a public art project in Miami, USA, mentioned by CNN, and has been highlighted by the international art magazine ArtForum for its latest exhibition, selected as one of the best of 2023.

avaf is currently working on new projects that will be on view at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami, the Dortmunder Kunstverein in Germany, and the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil.

Their works and public art projects have been shown in museums such as: Moma in New York, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOT) in Tokyo, Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, MATE in Lima, Storage by Hyundai Card in Seoul, and the CCCSP in São Paulo, among many others.