Felippe Moraes

View of the work Monument to Euclid by Felippe Moraes installed at Slanic-Moldova, Romania. Felippe Moraes (born July 9, 1988) is a visual artist, researcher and independent curator born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Works with various medias such as sculpture, installation, drawing, painting and photography. relating scientific methodology and spirituality. and holds an MA Fine Art from the University of Northampton.

Work In 2016 Felippe Moraes constructed his Monument to The Horizon (2016), a large-scale permanent public sculpture placed at Caminho Niemeyer in Niterói. The work is a five-meter tall steel tower around a small set of stairs that lead to a strip in the metal, revealing the horizon of Rio de Janeiro on the opposite side of the Guanabara Bay. where he constructed his Monument to Euclid (2017), consisting of eight sandstones in a circle in the woods, and paying homage to the Greek mathematician Euclid. In 2020 he developed the series of photographs Eledá (2020), relating to his spiritual experiences with the orishas.