Flávio Edreira studied Professional Photography at SENAC (Brazil, 2014) and Narrative Photography Course at the International School of International Photography GRISART (Barcelona, 2018). He worked as a freelance photographer in Brazil until 2017, when he moved to Barcelona, where he started making personal projects with Photography. He also joined VEO Collective (Barcelona, 2018). At the end of 2018, he returned to live in Brazil. Flávio lives immersed in anxiety. He lives with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, a disorder characterized due to inattention, anxiety and impulsiveness. For some time he has been transforming his visual imperfections in images, creating a kind of visual "madness". In the last 5 years he has been developing some photographic projects. Everything he creates arises from "chance", in an "unconscious" way, to later blend in some form of narrative. Everything comes from an accumulation, that little by little fits on one side or the other, and sometimes it just doesn't fit, it ceases to exist. The projects that survive this mental storm in which he lives, unconsciously, perpetuate: they exist. He always does his photography projects based on his personal interactions with the world and the environment that surrounds him and his imagination. Driven by the need to transform conflict in images, he likes to go very far in his thoughts and ideas. He always says that there is nothing more frightening than to dive into his own dreams.
"Flávio photographs not to frame, but to escape."- Eder Chiodetto
EXHIBITIONS
2023
Solo exhibition, photographic installation “I FORGET TO REMEMBER”, Festival Foto em Pauta, Tiradentes-MG, Brazil.
Collective exhibition, “Memoires Paralleles”, photographic installation “I FORGET TO RE- MEMBER” with French photographers, Ullic Morard and Jean Matthieu-Gosselin, OFF Arles, parallel to the Rencontres de Photographie d’Arles, Arles, France.
Solo exhibition, photographic installation “I FORGET TO REMEMBER”, Porto Alegre Inteanational Photography Festival, Fundação Iberê Camargo, during the Festfoto International Festival of Photography of Porto Alegre Exhibitions, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Group exhibition, photo installation “I FORGET TO REMEMBER”, Dali International Pho- tography Exhibition, Dali, Republic of China.
Collective Exhibition, Banalities in Urban Space, Kunsthalle UG, Augsburg, Germany.
2022
Collective Exhibition, Brazilian Emerging Photographers, Med Photo Fest, Catania, Italy.
2021
Collective Photofilm Exhibition, “Tormenta” at the Hercule Florence Festival, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
Projection “Tormenta”, Collective Exhibition, CLAI, the Circuito Livre de Arte Contempo- rânea (Free Circuit of Contemporary Art) de Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
2020
Collective Exhibition “Inside a Suspended Time”, organized by Foto em Pauta (Tiraden- tes), Foto- Rio (Rio de Janeiro), Foto Festival Solar (Fortaleza) and DOC Galeria (São Paulo), Brazil.
Collective Exhibition Corp_Urbano, Foto em Pauta Festival, Tiradentes, Brazil.
2019
Projection, “SPAM”, “The Library Project”, Photo Ireland Festival, Ireland.
Collective exhibition Images en Ville, in the Roquette neighborhood in Arles, France.
2018
Collective exhibition, “Five Seconds”, “Tormenta” project, Augusti Centelles Library, Barcelona, Spain.
2016
Collective Exhibition of Photographers from the Central-West of Brazil, Festival Month of Photography, Museu Nacional de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil.
AWARDS
2023
One of the winners of the Photobook Open Call, Belfast Photography Festival, with the photo book “há tempos”, Belfast, Ireland.
2022
Winner of the Porto Alegre International Festival Portfolio Review Award, “I FORGET TO REMEMBER”, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Winner of the GOYAZES Photography Prize, “Goyazes Photography Festival”, “I FORGET TO REMEMBER”, Goiânia, Brazil.
2021
Finalist Fotograma Livre, “Placebo”, Festfoto Porto Alegre International Festival, Brazil.
Finalist Lovely Award, “Cruzando o Paralelo”, Dummy category, Festival Imaginária, São Paulo, Brazil.
2019
Finalist in Portfolio Review of Foto em Pauta Festival, Tiradentes, Brazil and 5th Latin American Photography Forum, São Paulo, Brazil.
Finalist in the storytelling category, “SPAM” project, Siena Photo Festival, Italy.
Finalist of Descubrimientos PhotoEspaña, Madrid, Spain.
Winner Fotograma Livre, Porto Alegre International Festival, Brazil, “Vinte Pequenos Azulejos Cinzentos”, as a member of the Veo Photographers Collective, based in Barcelona, Spain.
Finalist for the Foto em Pauta Festival de Photo Book Dummy Award, “Tormenta”, Tiradentes, Brazil.
2016
Finalist for World in Focus, PDN Magazine, New York, USA.
EDITIONS
2023
“há tempos”, launch of the first photobook, Foto em Pauta photography festival, Tiradentes, Brazil; SP-Arte, pavilion of the São Paulo Biennial, Brazil. Edited and published by Fotô Editorial, São Paulo, Brazil.
2020
La Maleta de Portbou, Barcelona, Spain, n.40. Global Grisart, Barcelona, Spain.
2019
Photography Yearbook of the Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles, France. Global Grisart, Barcelona, Spain, 2019/2020/2021/2022;
2017
Opus Magazine, Goiânia, Brazil.
2016
Participation collective publication of the photo book Round Not Square, Berlin, Germany.
COLLECTIONS
Photo Ireland Festival “The Library Project” Collection, Ireland.
Joaquim Paiva Collection, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Med Photo Fest Collection, Catania, Italy.
Fortaleza Museum of Photography, Fortaleza, Brazil.