Mexo - rragrfrRrr

In the fourth of a series of works from Brazilian festival Novas Frequências’s 2020 programme, Fact presents rragrfrRrr, an audiovisual work from Mexo, the artistic persona and multimedia project Matheus Fernandes, art and media director at Federal University of Campina Grande. “The project is a consequence of the artist’s curiosity and urgency to create a space in which it was possible to distort his own body, his identity, to encourage anomalous imagery, to find (dis)solutions for a body and an inconvenient sound to his reality inside the Northeast,” says Novas Frequências. The video performance acts as a visual counterpart to his 2020 mixtape, fRrrrrrrag, using a rich collage of digital imagery to explore the mixtape’s themes of body, gender, technology, psyche, politics and society. “I first thought that the mixtape was about fear, but fear seemed too insufficient and limited to physical structures with a nervous system,” Mexo says of the mixtape. “In the process I could unc