Victor Fidelis

EDITION I / NO LIMITE DO PRIVADO (2025) / MIRA ART FAIR, PARIS

The inaugural MAZE / Art Awards F.P.Journe were presented on November 14, 2025, during MIRA Art Fair, Paris, an edition dedicated to Latin American art.

The jury, composed of Patricia Marshall (Fundación Jumex, Mexico) and Matthias Pfaller (Centre Pompidou, Paris), awarded the prize to Victor Fidelis, represented by Verve Gallery (São Paulo), for the work No limite do privado (2025).

Fidelis’s practice is shaped by his dual training as an artist and architect, resulting in a pictorial language where space, light, and structure carry both formal and psychological weight. Drawing from everyday life in São Paulo, his work engages with intimacy, memory, and Afro-Brazilian narratives, often approaching the domestic sphere as a site where personal and collective identities are negotiated. His compositions frequently balance figuration and construction, using architectural frameworks not only as settings but as active elements within the narrative.

The awarded painting, No limite do privado (2025), develops this approach through a scene structured around a moment of pause. Two figures share a quiet presence within a dense urban environment, where façades, walls, wires, and reflections define the space. Light plays a central role, marking transitions between interior and exterior, exposure and withdrawal. The work reflects the conditions of a specific São Paulo neighborhood, while addressing broader questions related to belonging, proximity, and the limits between private and public space.

The awarded work was acquired and proposed as a donation to the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

‍

//

‍

Read our interview with Victor Fidelis HERE

Next edition HERE

‍