Maurício Chades is an artist and filmmaker from Brazil. He holds a BA in Cinema Studies and an MA in Art and Technology from the University of Brasilia, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has participated in collectives such as Espaço AVI, Kinofogo Cineclube, and NINHO – Collective for Research in Art, Interactivity, and Agroecology. His works, in film, installation, sculpture, and performance have speculated about symbiotic, queer, and anticolonial futures. Through fiction, he strives to blur the separations between city, countryside, and forest. Envisioning syntropic environments and multispecies alliances, his art practice combines storytelling with restorative agriculture, composting, and fungiculture. His works have been shown worldwide, including at Queer Lisbon, Curitiba International Film Festival, and FILE – Electronic Language International Festival. In 2019, he presented his first solo show, Pyramid, Urubu, at The Brasilia Digital TV Tower, receiving the Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards in 2022. Chades was featured at the Biennial Videobrasil, and is currently a visiting artist at The Metabolic Studio in Los Angeles.