Igor Arume earned his BFA from the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and his Masters in Design from the State University of Rio de Janeiro. He is a designer, visual artist, researcher, collector and educator working at the multiple intersections between graphic design, printmaking and publishing. His work originates as a research-based (post-)photographic artistic exploration examining archive material and found imagery to answer ontological questions about the nature of images themselves. Arume is a second year MFA candidate in RISO. @igorarume