Xeito Fole
Xeito Fole is a visual artist and transgender, transfeminism, and anti-speciesism activist. In their work, they use digital media to think critically about hegemonic and normative sexual or gender identities, as well as the limits of bodies and symbolic, political, and social boundaries.
Early life
They graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Vigo. They earned several scholarships that allowed them to study at the Pontifical Catholic University of Río de Janeiro, the École régionale des beaux-arts d'Angers and the University of Barcelona. It was in the latter that they completed their specialization in audiovisual studies. They later completed a master's degree in digital arts at Pompeu Fabra University.Work
Their work is transversal and includes different disciplines, developing projects that relate art, politices, and education; during 2018, they carried out the project “Voces LGTBI+”, together with iDensitat, presented at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2016 and 2017 they taught video and audiovisual language workshops aimed at collaborative works, like In Living Memory and A Travessia. They also coordinated artistic creation with training in sexual and gender diversity from a transversal perspective through creative methodologies.Their work has been exposed in different exhibitions like:Diversidad, género y sexualidades Muestra Marrana El Venadito. ''Juntos contra el maltrato animal, Art Factory, Madrid, CC Sagrada Familia, Barcelona Espai Antoni Miro Peris, Barcelona Habitat Creatiu, Can Felipa, Barcelona Artes Visuales, Creación Injuve. Tabacalera, Madrid Nits Digitals - Ciclo de artes electrónicas de Vic. ACVic Sense Titol '10, Facultad de Bellas Artes, Barcelona Nuevos Valores 2010''. Museo Provincial de Pontevedra
They have participated in artistic residencies in art centers like Hangar or AcVic.
Awards
- 10x10 Pública
- II Encontro Artistas Novos
- Novos Valores 2010