Spotlight: “Domestic Appliance Violence”

Xavier Almeida is an artist who lives and works in Lisbon. His work includes comics, animation, illustration, drawing, installation, performance, and architecture. In 2008 he was nominated for the Young Illustrator Award at Illustrative in Zurich; in the same year, he won the Briefing Design Award in the category of Media Briefing with the animation tab for MTV Pt. He was selected for Young Creators ’09 prize for illustration (Portugal). Xavier has collaborated on illustration and writings with publications and brands such as MTV, Fundación Pampero, VICE, Lovers&Lollipops, The Rumpus, Ugespejlet Christiania, Público, Arq/A, Expresso and Diário de Notícias. He also has a censured exhibition by Casa Independente (Lisbon) about his Novela Pornográfica (Pornographic Novel). Pato Bravo is the comics name for Bernardo Fachada, born in Lisbon 1984. “Domestic Appliance Violence” is his first adventure in comics scripts. Bernardo Fachada is also B Fachada, a multi-instrumentalist: from piano to guitar, the Braguesa guitar and even vocal trumpets. From the damned sonnet to alexandrine cyanide, demonstrating a ‘Trás-os-Montes’ grandiloquence and the jazz rusticity of scat.