Everyday Permanent #2
Franc Paredes

05.11.25 14.12.25

Everyday Permanent is a visual essay on ways of inhabiting everyday life. In this intervention—presented for the first time during the Open Studio celebrating 20 years of Proyecto´ace—Franc Paredes expands on the research that begun in his exhibition at Casa Belgrado and delves into the most fundamental paradox of our time: we live under the pressure of speed and productivity, but spaces to pause, breathe, and truly inhabit time are becoming increasingly scarce.

The work revalues domestic objects and everyday materials, removing them from their utilitarian function to turn them into signs, maps, and refuges. From an altered advertising poster to a textile assemblage composed of synthetic grass, a towel, a swimsuit, a shade cloth, a parasol, rope, and a dishcloth, the piece proposes a subtle but sharp shift: the familiar becomes strange, and in that strangeness, the possibility of a more conscious gaze appears.

Through his intervention, Franc Paredes invites us to reconsider the relationship between body, space, and time, and to ask ourselves how we inhabit or cease to inhabit our surroundings, giving us the chance to recover a slower, more intimate, more personal attention.

BIO
Franc Paredes
1968 | Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentina
Lives and works between Bs. As and Paraná

EDUCATION
2019 | Diploma in Collective Art Practices. Universidad de Avellaneda, Argentina
2018 | Local and Community Social Indicators. Centro de Inv. en Políticas Sociales Urbanas,UNTREF
2015 | Public Management Policies and Tools. Postgraduate seminar, FLACSO
2000 | Bachelor’s Degree in Advertising. UCES—Univ. De Cs. Empresariales y Sociales, Bs. As., Argentina

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2017–today | Art, Technology and Territory seminar lecturing. UNTREF, Master’s in Electronic Arts
2021–today | Diploma in Environmental Humanities, UCES

EXHIBITIONS
2025 | Resistencias Tipográficas. agitar el archivo (group) Arte grafico. Glori Gráfica, Bs. As.
2025 | Cotidiano Permanente (solo). Casa Belgrado, Bs. As.
2023 | Las Palabras son la Excusa (solo). El Local, Bs. As.
2022 | Anotaciones al margen (solo). Paraná, Entre Ríos
2021 | Expedición Resonar (solo). Casa de la Cultura de Entre Ríos, Paraná

RESIDENCIES
2024 | Collaborative Art and Sustainable Development in the Context of Climate Change. Todo por la Praxis Madrid, Spain
2023 | Constelaciones. Residencia On/On + LPEP Buenos Aires–Córdoba, Argentina
2017 | Latin American Peripheries. SESC Itaquera, San Pablo, Brazil
2017 | Proyecto: Prácticas Artísticas y Políticas Públicas. Casa Tres Patios, Medellín, Colombia
2015 | MD15 – Bienal de Medellín, Casa Tres Patios, Colombia
2014 | Museo del Barrio Manizales, Colombia