Framed FZ 2026 Tour Sydney #1 Poster (Mar 14th) with CoA - Raphael Sagarra (Finok)

Frames are 22" x 28" mat framed to 18" x 24". Made with wood and plexiglass. 

Artist Bio: Raphael Sagarra (Finok) is a significant figure in Brazilian contemporary art, whose work investigates sociocultural and identity issues through a dialogue between popular tradition and contemporary critique. He began his career with illegal urban interventions in São Paulo, developing a distinctive visual language marked by typography, characters, intense chromatic gradients, and geometric patterns. His poetics revisits vernacular iconography, syncretic beliefs, and popular symbols, balancing rebellion, spirituality, and enchantment.

By re-signifying elements of subcultures such as kites and fire balloons, the artist reflects on marginality, illegality, and cultural legitimation. In painting, he merges popular, conceptual, and religious references with oriental and tropical influences, exploring the duality between strength and fragility. His practice also extends to sculpture, creating objects that evoke reinterpreted ex-votos, and to recent research on vernacular architecture and anonymous street writings, addressing memory, authorship, and presence with irony and provocation.