Frederico Winner
Frederico Winner’s work is rooted in a lifelong fascination with maps, both their political complexity and their physical beauty.
For him, maps are more than tools of navigation; they are sublime interpretations of human curiosity and our evolving relationship with the world around us. As a visual artist and photographer, Winner seeks out patterns, geometries, and colour across the Earth’s surface, using aerial photography and satellite imagery to reveal the hidden aesthetics of our planet.
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His ongoing project, Ultradistancia, begins with Google Earth and transforms digital cartography into a visual language of abstraction and exploration. It allows him to travel without moving, scoping the immensity of the planet, distorting and reimagining its forms, and reflecting on how we perceive space, scale, and belonging.
At Oxford North, Winner’s work resonates as a meditation on shared experience and collective identity. His art invites us to pause and consider the patterns that connect us, across cultures, disciplines, and geographies, and how technology can illuminate the invisible threads of community. In this setting, his work becomes a visual language for belonging, encouraging dialogue and reflection within a space shaped by collaboration and innovation.
