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Established in 2010 and consolidated in its present form in 2013, Underdogs works with a diversified roster of Portuguese and international artists connected with the urban inspired contemporary art universe, fostering the development of close relationships between creators, the public, and the city with the aim of promoting art as an everyday experience.
Inert Lives is a voyage to a symbolic universe of dualities, impossibilities, contrasts and contradictions, where American-flavoured capitalist development grapples with the fragility of the natural environment, where human beings are made of skin and brick and hide the loss of their individual identity behind symbols and masks, where animals and people become entwined in a visual production where the absurd sinks its roots in the construction of the artificial.
Common to this quest of Okuda's is a distinct visual language based on multicoloured geometric patterns, organic forms, anthropomorphic figures and grey anonymous bodies that offer a critical yet engaged reflection on crucial contemporary subjects such as the human condition, the meaning of life and the false freedom of capitalism, highlighting the contradictions between modernity and our roots.
