Iluá Hauck Da Silva

The crux of my practice is to visually investigate the human condition and its conundrums: sculpted body parts and internal organs function as powerful signifiers for different psychological, emotional, and physical afflictions.
I explore the vastly complex notion of beauty – both aesthetically and conceptually – by combining a wealth of materials and techniques, most often body casting, glass, and drawing. A strong sense of the relationship between what can potentially be described as beautiful and the brutality of existence is thus deeply infused in my work.
Cohesion between form and idea is consciously pursued or challenged and charges my work with affecting connotations: as multiple layers of meaning unfold, the contingency of visual dialogues between crafted matter, abstract concepts, and ontological preoccupations crystallise.

2023 - present Professional Doctorate in Fine Art, University of East London.

2018-2020 MA Christianity and the Arts King's College London in association with The National Gallery London

1998-2002 Goldsmiths, University of London
BA (hons) Art History

1995-1996 Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil
BA Fine Arts

Solo Exhibitions

2024 Viscerae, Century Members Club, London, UK.

2021Hekowé Ka’á (The Heart of the Rainforest), with Rigulio Graak, Pertunmaan Kunnantalo, Finland

2019 End of residency show 'Pathos Ocularis -The Beautiful and The Curious' British Optical Association Museum, London. From Sept.

2017 Special solo display of 'Velvet & Gold' and 'Digital Interventions' series, Upstairs at L'Escargot, London.

2016 Minotaurs of the Mind - The Second Coil, Brompton Cemetery Chapel, London.

2016 Special solo display of 'Flagellations I&II and Cilice', Augustijnenklooster, Ghent, Belgium.

2012 Minotaurs of the Mind, National Trust Sutton House, London.

2012 Special solo display of 'Veins of Vanity II' in the Chapel of the National Trust Sutton House, London.

2011 Punhados de Possibilidades, Museu Padre Lima, Itatiba, Brazil.

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Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition, York Art Gallery, York

2021 Love is Not an Ideology, Zebra One Gallery, London

2021 Dante 700th London, Dante Society London, London

2021 Creation in Isolation - Navigating Absurdity in Times of Limitation, Pärnu Art Week, Pärnu, Estonia

2021 RWA 168th Annual Open Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol...