Project Dossiers
ID Entity
This project, developed during the residency, consists of a series of digital collages, assemblages and paintings that explore the construction of a new identity as well as an exploration, using the mask as a costume/skin made of make-believe attempts, the makeshift costume of the mask as a performance, the mise en scene while looking for fragmentation and recontextualization uisng techniques as painting, AR and VR to explore the act of imagemaking from that point of view.
A-B=C
Videoinstallation comissioned by Alserkal Avenue during the 2022 Art Week : "In this work, the eye retains the projected image, even if objects placed before it ‘break’ its integrity.The will to persevere, the drive to remain, to resist ephemerality—we share this with the image’s tumultuous self.” (Kevin Jones, curator)
The Journeyman 1 and 2
A masked character travels in a alien enviroment , exploring different sensations and trying to forge new links and made sense of the new experience exploring an imaginary city where the city becomes the world. Here the exploration of nostalgia, let spill some historical references of Peru in particular and LatAm in general.
Zoomorphic anthropomorphic
Traditional and digital interpretations of natural forms, exploring the intersection between organic structures and geometric patterns.
Poetic Web
Computer-generated artworks exploring the intersection of mathematics and visual aesthetics and digital interpretations of natural forms, exploring the intersection between organic structures and geometric patterns.
Retablo
A series of small “mise en scene” exploring images of the subcon-scious from the construction of the identity to the hidden realities of the mind through surrealist scenes. The figures were de-stroyed after the photography was taking, being the record, the photo used in the collages and assem-blages the ony thing that remains of the figurines, exploring at the same time the nature of the image as presence and vestige as well as creation and ideation.
CV / Biography
German Fernandez Cantos was born in Lima, Peru,
graduated from the Faculty of Art of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica
del Peru as graphic designer and artist. As a designer, he has been
part of award-winning projects with the Al Bayan and DMI infographic
teams. As an artist, he has participated in exhibitions in UAE, Peru and
India, as well as having two solo shows at FN Designs gallery in 2013
and 2016 at the cultural district of Alserkal Avenue as well as being
artist-in-residence at the Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation in 2024. In his
work he seeks to explore in his works the themes of identity and
communication through characters who appear masked, disguised or
entangled in structures drawn in surreal and unknown environments,
trying to capture vignettes of contemporary life in each scene. He
participated in Sikka previously, in the 2014 edition, co-curated by
Sheikha Wafa Hasher Al Maktoum and the Japanese architect Kayoko Iemura.
This year at Sikka -curated by Maktoum Al Maktoum- he is part of the
project WindSails in collaboration with the Lebanese artist Ghada Mehdi.
Currently lives and works in Dubai, as consultant in the field of
information graphics and data visualization.
Recent Studies
-2023 RCA Contemporary Art Summer School
-2022 RCA Executive: Archives and collections and Curation and writing
-2021 Oxford Digital Humanities Summer School
-PUCP, Faculty of Art.
Recent Events
-2025 Sikka Art Fair
-2024 ADH Cultural Foundation Art Residency
-2022 AlSerkal Art Week
-2016 Solo show (FNDesign,AlSerkal)
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Contact
For inquiries about exhibitions, collaborations, or
artwork purchases, please reach out via email at gefercant@hotmail.com
or through Instagram @gefercan. Studio visits are available by
appointment. I am always interested in connecting with fellow artists,
curators, and collectors who share a passion for contemporary art and
innovative creative practices. Please allow 2-3 business days for a
response to all inquiries.
For design practices go to: design page .
For writing articles, here and here.