Pedro França (1984) is an artist who has worked in multiple media since 2013. The guiding thread of his production is an interest in allegorical images of contemporary society. The scenes he constructs possess an open narrative sense, not tied to a single fact or episode, but combining and displacing suggestive elements—many of them drawn from diverse iconographies of art history and culture. Thus, there is rarely a single story being told, but rather a network of reminiscences and associations that the artist offers to the public, inviting them to relate these to their own desires, experiences, fears, and traumas.

Resisting the demand for efficiency and clarity, França works in the realm of ambiguity and ambivalence. The repetition of scenes and figures across numerous drawings, paintings, and frescoes turns them into images as persistent as the dreams and prophecies that renew unconscious fears and desires.

Recently, França has dedicated himself to fresco production, seeking to reconcile image creation with the social and architectural contexts in which the pieces exist.

Flautista (2025) was made as a small fresco in a garage temporarily used as a studio. It was removed from the wall and transferred to fabric using an old restoration technique. The drawing was a study for the figure of a flutist, based on the memory of a scene seen the previous day, and served as one of the starting points for another fresco featured in the exhibition A Terra, o Fogo, a Água e os Ventos: Por um Museu da Errância com Édouard Glissant at Instituto Tomie Ohtake.