Isaque Sanches is a creator of systemic art currently living in Finland. He is of Portuguese origin but born in Switzerland. Sanches is also a senior videogame designer at Ubisoft, and used to be a senior XR developer at Siemens. By day Sanches creates rational and pragmatic tools for users to use – by night he makes things that challenge reason, go beyond senses and exist for their own sake. He believes in art that encourages subjectivity and interactivity.
Businessman Salad (2024) is a video-collage of loose texts, presented in a kaleidoscopic and frenetic dance. The words flash, grow, shrink, vibrate. They are alive. The texts are by people identifying as LGBTQ+, including the author himself. The subjects’ thoughts were collected for this exact purpose, and with their consent, through live interviews, essay-writing, journal-writing, surrealist-style cadavre exquis, etc. The manuscript would only be readable if the reader could get close enough, but whenever they do so, the text shuts down. The dance stops.
Curators’ comments: “Sanches’ Businessman Salad is a very intriguing work of audiovisual writing. It brings space to poetry: through the work, reading becomes physical and the text lives in relation to the reader’s body moving in space. The act of reading becomes visible instead of the meanings of language. A great multidisciplinary artist with a versatile command of different genres!”
