Alex Furtado (b. Toronto, ON) is a multi-media artist predominantly working in sculpture. His research focuses on the relations of labor, value, intention, and preservation to collective and self-determination. Representations of the German ‘sehnsucht’ and Portuguese ‘saudade’ within domestic, industrial, and academic affairs are 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.