Francisco Hurtz (1985) is a self-taught artist from São Paulo’s underground scene, dedicated to appropriating, reorganizing and decontextualizing images through the use of lines and empty spaces across the surface. His research is grounded in queer theory and engages with the male body as something constructed, completed and integrated - moving from the individual to the collective,  and pointing to the possibilities of a contemporary masculinity. In his works, this body is treated as an object of study: stripped of artifice and placed under scrutiny within emptiness, with the intention of being observed and filled with complex meanings, delimited by lines on the verge of breaking and integrating themselves into their surroundings. Hurtz has exhibited widely in Brazil and abroad, and his work is included in significant collections such as the Kandinsky Library at the Centre Pompidou, the Fisher Library at the University of Toronto, the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, the National Museum of Fine Arts (Brazil), the National Library (Brazil), and the Museum of Art of Rio.