Francisco Tomsich is a Slovene/Uruguayan artist and author born in 1981 in the Southerm Cone of South America and currently based in Istria. His practice is rooted in the urgency to create critical dialogues between images of the past, notions of present and active models of future. He works simultaneously on drawing systems, painting and time-based picture making, movement configuration, film, lens-based images, sculpture, sound projects and text composition in order to represent complex creative processes circumscribed in significant kairotopes and signed by the intertwining of (auto)biographical, allegorical and historical narratives. An expanded notion of diaries is the main paradigm of organization in this model of actuation, while the configured series, artefacts, fragments, methods and theories are usually articulated in the form of synergic devices: books, works for the stage, pedagogical models and exhibitions. They are often designed, carried out or developed in association with other artists and cultural workers and habitually targeted as places where certain consensus can be achieved.
Francisco Tomsich is an artist and author born in Uruguay in 1981. He produces exhibitions, publications, works for the stage, research models and pedagogical devices, operating with different media, languages and tongues. He has co-founded and integrates many non-disciplinary associations of cultural workers in South America and Europe. His works have been exhibited and published internationally and awarded on many occasions, including the National Prize for Literature of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay (2012 and 2025) and the FEFCA Scholarship for young artists from the same institution (2013). He participated in the 7th MERCOSUR Biennial (2009) and the 1st Montevideo Biennial (2012), and took part in numerous artists’ residencies in various countries. He is an independent researcher and works as a professor of contemporary art and art histories. He lives in Slovenia since 2013, where he works as self-employed in the field of culture as a painter. He also leads the cultural and artistic association Boja (Izola, Slovenia), devoted to the creation, translation and dissemination of contemporary poetics in the fields of visual arts, literature, contemporary dance and film.
Francisco Tomsich is a composer of traces, an iconographer of musics, a painter of poems, an allegorist of politics, a South American expressionist monster with something of a Japanese alchemist involved in anarchitecture, a walkscaper of Yugoslav histories, a fervent gardener of fragments.
“Practice is defined here as any operation that provides or improves the actor’s qualification for the next performance of the same operation.” (Peter Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life)
Francisco Tomsich 