Mauricio Freyre is a researcher, audiovisual artist, and filmmaker with a background in architecture. In his work, he focuses on structures and systems of ideas at the margins of the constructed and projected, emphasizing blind spots, dark areas, accidents, distortions and forms of consciousness that are excluded. A current project he is engaged in is 'Estados Generales', which traces the role of botany and its systems within colonial sciences, exploring the political and subversive dimension of the plant world in relation to a western epistemology. It has received support from ICAA, Instituto de Cinematografía y Artes Audiovisuales in Spain, DAFO in Peru, FidLAB 2021 in Marseille and Residencias Matadero in Madrid. His project ‘Interspecies Architecture’ has been premiered in May 2021 at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale as part of the Taiwan Pavilion.
Recently he has obtained the National Prize for Experimental Films awarded by the Ministry of Culture in Peru. His films and installations have been included in different programs and exhibitions including 17th Venice Architecture Biennale in Venice, Centro Centro, Madrid, Collectif Jeune Cinéma in Paris, Bisagra in Lima, Imagine Science Films in New York, Lima independiente, Festival Internacional de Cine Valdivia, Film Fest Gent, Strangloscope in Florianopolis, Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, l’Alternativa, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, TENT in Rotterdam, Nederlands Film Festival in Utrecht and Fundación Telefonica in Lima.


Selected exhibitions and screenings

ECAM, Last push, Madrid, 2024 
‘XXL Dreams’, Laak, Den Haag, 2024
‘Files for Films’, LID, Late Idea Dice, Madrid, 2024
‘Semilla fantasma’, programa publico, Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid, Madrid, 2023
‘Semilleru’, Festival Internacional de Gijón, 2023
‘Intersección, Festival Internacional de Cine de A Coruña ’, Lab Corte Final, 2023
‘Mecas, cine casi hecho’, Festival de Cine de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria , 2023
‘WIP Malaga’, Festival de Malaga, Premio WIP REC. Festival Internacional de Cinema de Tarragona, 2023
‘Porto Post-Doc Industry Program’, Festival Porto Post-Doc, 2023
‘El cine crecerá como una planta’, Corriente: Encuentro Latinoamericano de Cine de No Ficción, Centro de Cultura Digital y el Laboratorio Experimental de Cine (LEC), Mexico, July 2022 
‘Minor, rethinking the narrative’, Collective exhibition, OMI, Rotterdam, June 2022 
Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, Concorso Pesaro Nuovo Cinema, Pesaro, June 2022
‘Un lago de jade verde’, Institute for Postnatural Studies, Centro centro, Madrid, 2022
‘Primitive Migration’, 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, Taiwanese Pavilion, Venice, 2021
‘Hybrid Spaces’, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Louvre auditorium, Paris, 2021
Festival des cinémas différents et expérimentaux de Paris, Collectif Jeune Cinéma, Compétition Internationale, Paris, 2021
Programa audiovisual II, Jornadas de puertas abiertas, Centro de residencias artísticas, Matadero, Madrid, 2021
Cine-logias, en colaboración con Candela Sotos, Centro de residencias artísticas, Matadero, Madrid, 2021
Imagine Science Films, Official competition, New York, 2021
Film Fest Gent, Official competition, Gent, 2021
Lima independiente, Competición Oficial, Mención honrosa, Lima, 2021
‘Panorama español contemporáneo’, MUTA, Lima, 2020
'¿Cómo continuar?', Bisagra, Lima, 2020
‘Experimentales del Sur’, AMEE, Cine Estudio, en colaboración con Carlos Quebrada, Circulo de Bellas Artes CBA, Madrid, 2019
l’Alternativa, 26º, Sección Oficial Nacional, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona CCCB, Barcelona, 2019 
‘L’architecture du film’, Les saisons, Marian Goodman bookstore, Paris, 2019
‘Spirits Dialogue’, NYMU, Taipei, 2019
‘Strangloscope’, Museu da Imagem e do Som de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, 2019
From the South, Fix in Art, Thessaloniki, 2019
Muestra de Cine XI BIAU, C.C. de España Juan de Salazar, Asunción, 2019
‘Peripheral Exhibition’, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Carreau du Temple, Paris, 2019
`Spirits Dialogue, NYMU, Taipei, 2019
‘Hablar Piedras’, Espositivo, Madrid, 2019
‘Desierto Isla’, Late Idea Dice, Madrid, 2019
‘Vip Program’, Carajillo,  Nave Oporto, ARCO, Madrid, 2019
‘Cierra los ojos y acelera’, Salón, Madrid, 2019
‘Horas Extras’, Sirocco, AMEE, LiMac, Madrid, 2019
XI BIAU’, Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, La Habana, Cuba, 2019
‘Speak Volumes’, Pavilion for The Wrong Biennale, 2019
‘Fiction Stratum’, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, 
HKW, Berlin, 2018 
Unforeseen Festival, Center for cultural decontamination CZKD, Belgrade, 2017 
‘Movimcat’, The Moving 
Image Catalog, 2017
‘Strate-fiction', Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, 2017
‘Verdi’, Espacio la Verdi, 
Buenos Aires, 2017
‘Nuevos Caminos’, Festival
 Internacional de Cine Valdivia 23º, 
Valdivia, 2016 
‘Edition Zero’, Ses Dotze Naus, 
Ibiza, 2016 
‘Forecast Platform’, Haus der
 Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2015