About
Pedro Mendes (b. 1995, Brazil) is a visual artist and researcher currently living and working in Madrid. His practice spans experimental film, video, and writing, with a particular interest in archival and AI-generated materials. He is a PhD candidate in Advanced Studies in Artistic Productions at the University of Barcelona and holds an MA in Filmmaking from the University of Warwick/London Film School (UK) and a BA in Audiovisual Production from PUCRS (Brazil), where he received a CNPq research fellowship.
Alongside his independent artistic work, he has been active as a curator, translator, film critic, and educator. He is co-founder of PÁR—a platform for critical and experimental practices around cinema and contemporary art—and serves as an international ambassador for Runway AI. His work has been presented in festivals, galleries, and institutions across Latin America, Europe, and the UK.
Working across analog, digital, and synthetic media, Mendes explores the intersections between memory, identity, and embodiment through moving images and writing. His ongoing research develops the concept of post-archival autofiction: a speculative methodology that brings together personal and collective archives—home videos, family photographs, found footage—with AI-generated materials as two dimensions of the same mnemonic operation. Engaging both intimate and historical resonances, his work speculates with and against the archive to investigate how memory, the self, and their representations are assembled, distorted, and transformed.
