Alex Furtado (b. Toronto, ON) is a multi-media artist predominantly working in sculpture. His research focuses on acts of definition and conceptualization as expressed through language, labor, value, and preservation. Representations of the German ‘sehnsucht’ and Portuguese ‘saudade’ within domestic, industrial, and academic affairs are often central to his art practice. Informed by his personal history, education in archival sciences, and participation in blue-collar workplaces; he utilizes visual language from the worlds of recordkeeping and the skilled trades to communicate ambivalent experiences of incompleteness in our pasts, presents, and futures.