About
Ruído is a creative project joining Portuguese artists Draw (Frederico Soares Campos, 1988) and Alma (Rodrigo Guinea Gonçalves, 1984), who both have backgrounds deeply marked by graffiti and urban art. It emerges after a ten-year artistic collaboration, embodied by a symbiotic dialogue between the individual language of each element, producing large- and small-scale pieces in a unique and immediately recognizable style.
Ruído’s body of work is rooted in two structural components that interlock and complement each other. On the one hand, a preoccupation with focussing on the specificities of the human condition: the relationship between corporeality and physical space, human behaviour, both collective and individual, the emotional and existential universe and the relevance of interpreting the body when interlaced with an abstract context. On the other, it incorporates the desire to create a direct relationship with the public, of provoking reactions and a questioning of the impact of the relationship between human beings and space, and human interference on space.
The nature of Ruído’s work is mirrored in its name (meaning noise), revealing the roots and influences of the artists who chose it. An art developed in layers, seemingly confusing but profoundly organized and symbolic, relating to urban space and everything it involves: people, buildings, movement, tags, graffiti, posters, disorder: noise. Work that is continuously imposing, generating an indispensable and unavoidably contemporary confrontation that draws on emotion and instigates a very necessary process of reflexion.
