Fredi Casco
Fredi Casco was born in 1967 in Asuncion, Paraguay,
where he currently lives and works
Fredi Casco’s artistic practice revolves around archival documents and photographs that he finds in flea markets and old book stores. He creates alternative narratives that mix contemporary history, literature and a sense of uncanniness or nostalgia. He has taken great interest in the official portraits from the oligarchy in South America, as well as the indigenous Chaco region of Paraguay or his own family photographs. A visual artist, writer and director, Fredi Casco is also editor of the the South American magazine Sueño de la Razón. He co-founded El Ojo Salvaje (Month of Photography in Paraguay) and also of the independent publishing house Ediciones de la Ura in Asunción.
His work has been shown at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013); 3rd and 10th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2001 and 2015); Valencia Biennial, Spain (2007); Thessaloniki Biennial of Contemporary Art, Greece (2009); 10th Habana Biennial (2009); BienalSur, Buenos Aires (2019).
Main solo and group exhibitions include: El círculo que faltaba, MAMM Medellin, Colombia (2019); Lo que brilla, Centro de la Imagen, City of Mexico (2019);Postcards. News from a Dream World, Les Rencontres d’Arles, France (2019); Nous les Arbres, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris (2019); Aura latente, Museo del Barro, Asunción, Paraguay (2018); Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain. A Beautiful Elsewhere, Power Station of Art, Shanghai (2018); Conspiracy Theory, Centro de la Imagen, City of Mexico (2017); El retorno de los brujos. Los desastres de la guerra fría, Archivos Nacionales de Asunción, Paraguay (2017); La fascination des sirènes, Maison de L’Amérique Latine, Paris (2014); Now you see it, Photography and Concealment, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2014); America Latina, 1960-2013 Photographs, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris (2013); and Efecto Downey, Fundación Telefónica in Buenos Aires (2006).
In 2013, Fredi Casco directed with Renate Costa the film Revuelta(s) for the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.
Lo que brilla – Exhibition view, Centro de la Imagen, Ciudad de Mexico, 2019
Lo que brilla – Exhibition view, Centro de la Imagen, Ciudad de Mexico, 2019
Lo que brilla – Exhibition view, Centro de la Imagen, Ciudad de Mexico, 2019
Lo que brilla – Exhibition view, Centro de la Imagen, Ciudad de Mexico, 2019
Arete Gua’u, 2018 – Exhibition view, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, 2018
Contact, 2014 – Exhibition view, C/O Berlin, Berlin, 2021 (Photography: David von Becker)
Contact, 2014 – Exhibition view, C/O Berlin, Berlin, 2021 (Photography: David von Becker)
Contact, 2014 – Exhibition view, Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Paris, 2014
Contact, 2014 - Installation including 49 postcards, detail
Contact, 2014 - Installation including 49 postcards, detail
Contact, 2014 – Exhibition view, Les rencontres d'Arles, 2019
Contact, 2014 - Installation including 49 postcards, detail
Contact, 2014 - Installation including 49 postcards, detail
Como pez en el monte, 2019 - Film (Directed by Fredi Casco and Fernando Allen), commissioned for the exhibition "Trees", Fondation Cartier, Paris
Como pez en el monte, 2019 - Film (Directed by Fredi Casco and Fernando Allen), commissioned for the exhibition "Trees", Fondation Cartier, Paris
La fascination des sirènes – Exhibition view, Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Paris, 2014
Chaco Fantasma, 2007 - Series of digital prints
Chaco Fantasma, 2007 - Series of digital prints
Chaco Fantasma, 2007 - Series of digital prints
Chaco Fantasma, 2007 – Exhibition view, Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Paris, 2014
Chaco Fantasma, 2007 - Single channel video
Espectros III, 2019 - Series of drawings on paper
Espectros III, 2019 - Series of drawings on paper
Revueltas(s), 2013 - Digital film (directed by Fredi Casco and Renate Costa), commissioned for the exhibition "America Latina 1960-2013", Fondation Cartier, Paris
Foto Zombie, 2012 - Exhibition view, Metropolitan Museum, New York, 2014
Foto Zombie, 2012 - Exhibition view, Metropolitan Museum, New York, 2014
Foto Zombie, 2012 - Pencil drawing on the back of vintage silverprints
Foto Zombie, 2012 - Pencil drawing on the back of vintage silverprints
El retorno de los brujos, vol. 1, 2005 - Series of digital prints
El retorno de los brujos, vol. 1, 2005 - Series of digital prints
El retorno de los brujos, vol. 1, 2005 (Series of digital prints)
El retorno de los brujos, vol. 3, 2005 - Diptych of digital prints
El retorno de los brujos, vol. 3, 2005 - Diptych of digital prints
El retorno de los brujos, vol. 3, 2005 - Diptych of digital prints
El retorno de los brujos. Los desastres de la Guerra Fría – Exhibition view, Archivos Nacionales de Asunción, Paraguay, 2017
El círculo que faltaba – Exhibition view, MAMM, Medellín, Colombia, 2019
Pascua dolorosa, 2017 -Series of drawings over vintage worksheets
Pascua dolorosa, 2017 -Series of drawings over vintage worksheets
Arete Gua’u (Todas las fiestas del mañana), 2022 - Intervened photograph with pastel
Bicho Ra’angá, 2016 - Graphite, pastel and ink on paper
Arete Gua’u (II), 2021 - Collage of official documents, ink and color pencil on paper
Mémoires vives, 2014 - Film, commissioned for the exhibition "Mémoires vives", Fondation Cartier