SUPER

Felipe Super is a São Paulo–born, New York–based visual artist whose work bridges graffiti, contemporary abstraction, and experimental typography. Emerging from Brazil’s street art scene in the early 2000s, his practice is deeply influenced by pixação—a raw and cryptic form of urban writing rooted in resistance and identity. With a background in Photography and Graphic Design, Super develops compositions that merge industrial structures, geometric systems, and layered visual narratives. His work explores the tension between order and chaos, structure and instinct, often translating the rhythm of the city into complex surfaces built through repetition, fragmentation, and material intervention. Since relocating to New York in 2018, Super has expanded his practice internationally, presenting works across the United States, Europe, and South America. Working from his studio at the World Trade Center, his current research focuses on layered compositions that challenge traditional visual hierarchies and reflect the unstable, overlapping nature of contemporary experience. My practice exists between structure and chaos, rooted in the visual language of São Paulo’s streets and expanded through my experience in New York. Emerging from graffiti in the early 2000s, I developed a relationship with letters, surfaces, and the city as a living system—where everything overlaps, decays, and rebuilds itself continuously. Working across painting, photography, and mixed media, I construct layered compositions that merge typography, geometry, and industrial references. My process is based on accumulation, fragmentation, and repetition—where images are cut, reassembled, and disrupted. I am interested in how visual information behaves when it loses its original function, transforming letters into structures, memories into textures, and noise into form. Influenced by pixação and urban environments, my work reflects the tension between control and instinct. Each piece operates as a system in flux—where order is constantly interrupted and redefined. Through layering and material intervention, I explore how images are built over time, carrying traces of movement, memory, and lived experience. Living and working in New York, my practice engages with the density of contemporary life—where multiple realities coexist. My work does not seek resolution, but rather embraces instability, revealing compositions that are both constructed and collapsing at the same time.