Expanding through mediums such as painting, sculpture, installation and performance, Hugo Canoilas’ work is defined as practice-based and experimentation-driven with different materialities and scales, creating a fluid circulation between objects and subjects.

His most recent projects explore the intersection between the processes of painting and sculpture. He welcomes the unforeseen and the effects intrinsic to the qualities of the matter and the materials that he incorporates in his work, mimicking the creative processes present in nature.

The trans-disciplinary artistic research that he has been developing focuses on the possibility of expanding this imagined quality, both human and non-human, and in constructing relationships that take place both in the working process, often collaborative and communal, and in the experience reverberated in the viewer. Through this process, Canoilas’ work reflects on the existence of a shared future of cohabitation, collaboration and mutual attention, freed from cultural, social and inter-species hierarchies, recognising that this territory of the imagination should also accommodate the poetic forms of the animal world.