My Name Is Not SEM

"I’m an EDM (electronic dance music) enthusiast since my teenage years and have been a DJ myself. I used to listen to psychedelic music, but recently I have been moving towards a more minimalistic and abstract spectrum of sounds. This can be mirrored by the increasingly minimal concept of my artworks. These prints represent the aforementioned feeling of change towards more abstract and minimal sounds, and also two aspects inherent to music: flow and balance." - my name is not SEM

Filipe Granja was born in Porto in 1989. He started to demonstrate a talent for urban art at a young age. In 2004 he painted his first graffiti, an artistic style that continues to dominate his work, although with different techniques.

The nature of his creative process comes from a symbiosis of experiences. The electronic music festivals, the experience of altered states along with the graffiti background and the know-how in design, mold the multiple visual languages that he explores in his work. The psychedelic, the imaginary universes, the optical art, and the kaleidoscope vision predominate in a work that excels by the representation of environments and soundscapes.