Pedro Barateiro is a Lisbon-based artist from Portugal who works across sculpture, film, performance, writing and drawing. Focusing on the deconstruction of Western binary narratives, his works draw from the notion of the artist as spectator, traversing various elements, practices and arrangements in an attempt to build networks of meaning from hybridised objects. In June 2022 Pedro presented the exhibition Vento at Hangar, focussing on a particular moment of Portuguese history on the 25th of April, 1974, as captured by Mario Varela Gomes. In this conversation, he speaks with Hangar Radio about the forgotten histories of freedom, the shift from analog to algorithmic fascism, how the growth of data and media-based trade and identity-formation is influencing what is possible in our realities and what relationship this has to our past struggles for freedom.

Pedro Barateiro (Almada, 1979) works in a variety of media, including sculpture, film, performance, writing and drawing.

His work has focused on the deconstruction of western binary narratives. Barateiro organizes events and exhibitions at Spirit Shop, a space managed by him and attached to his studio in Rua da Madalena in Lisbon. In 2020, along with a group of artists, he started the AAVP (Visual Artists Association in Portugal). He held solo exhibitions at CRAC Alsace (2022), Kohta (2022), Rialto6 (2021), REDCAT (2016), Museu Coleção Berardo (2015), Kunsthalle Basel (2010), Kunsthalle Lissabon (2010), Lumiar Cité (2010), Museu de Serralves (2009), among many others. He has participated in group exhibitions such as the 13th Sharjah Biennial (2017), 20th SESC – Videobrasil (2017), 29th São Paulo Biennial (2010), 16th Sydney Biennial (2008) and 5th Berlin Biennial (2008). Barateiro edited the books Temporary Collaborations and ACTIVITY (JRP|Ringier) with artist Ricardo Valentim. He edited the monograph How to Make a Mask, (Kunsthalle Lissabon/ Sternberg Press), The Artist as Spectator and É só uma ferida (It’s only a wound) (Documenta/ Mousse Publishing).

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