Filipe Garcia was apparently born in Porto in October 1973, and is a Researcher, Educator, Visual Artist, Performer, Independent Curator, Professor, Yogi, and Poet.
Co-creative, meditative, and contemplative in the apprehension and understanding of inner aesthetics and outer ethics, he seeks, through the silent meanders of this same hinge, the integral (re)encounter with the natural designs of the creation of human consciousness.
Joyful, inspired, and spontaneously speaking, he expresses himself in otherness through the careful observation of present reality, empirically proposing the visualization of the imagistic idea of synchronicity between will and knowledge on the busy, but unavoidable path of realization.
Within the different contexts in which he works and which he problematizes, he attempts, through multidisciplinary processes based on relationships of sensitive, active, conceptual, and spiritual proximity, to convey the countless possibilities of an experimental and intuitive approach, thus creating space for new perspectives and variables in the definition and sublimation of the problems of the present and the paradox in contemporary art.
His current occupation is based on approaching non-dual systemic thinking as a broader means of understanding issues related to the site, observation, perception, and (a)perception of the artwork in the relationship between immanence and transcendence, shadow and light, identity and dissolution, the public and the private, the visible and the invisible, so that in these spaces and corners, he can lightly witness and foster the attention of artistic consciousness as an expansive and paramorphic process of constructing reality.
To this end, he develops studies and practices around the relationship between the artist/object, subject/creative, and spirit/transcendent, so that through this triad he can refine and co-create his own language on the way back to 'heaven'.
Master in Art and Design for Public Space from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (FBAUP) in 2011 with the thesis "Disclosure Art(Process) and (A)Perception of the Real" | (Between the possibility of paradox and the impossibility of perceiving reality), where he intended to explore by questioning aspects related to perception and reality in site-specific and non-site-specific contexts, exercising in a multidisciplinary, poetic, and philosophical way mechanisms of curiosity that allow one to grasp and understand the possibility of paradox and the impossibility of perceiving reality.
He graduated in Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (FBAUP) in 2001.
He has individually and in co-creation carried out presentations, curatorial work, exhibitions, installations, happenings, lectures, performances, texts, poems, books, workshops, and other artistic and metaphysical activities in Portugal, Brazil, Spain, India, England, Latvia, Mexico, Nepal, and Timor.