About

FRAUD (Audrey Samson and Françîcco Gayardo) is an artist duo whose work has been exhibited internationally. Their artistic and investigative practice poses questions that aim to de-centre dominant legal and policy systems validating and perpetuating resource- and commodity-oriented relations. Their current work is centred around the managerial domain of Critical Minerals (UK) / Critical Raw Materials (EU), examining how such strategies grant access, institutionalise maximum utilisation, standardise, segregate, represent difference, or uphold systems of gender and racial dominance. Through such effort(s) FRAUD aims to inspire and foster different cultural practices, political imaginations, networks of mutuality and relations, and even modes of world (un)making.

Somerset House Studios alumni, the duo, currently Stanley Picker Fellows, has also been selected for Artangel’s Making Time, as well as awarded the HBK Braunschweig Fellowship (2020), the King’s College Cultural Institute Grant (2018) and has been commissioned by Contemporary Art Archipelago (2022), the Istanbul Design Biennial (2020), RADAR Loughborough (2020) and the Cockayne Foundation (2018). Audrey is a Professor in More-Than-Computational Arts at l’École de Recherche Graphique. Formerly an andariegos, Françîcco is an architect and geographer who was awarded the Wellcome Trust People Awards (2016) and authored Talking Dirty published by Arts Catalyst (2016). They are Studio Tutor in Architecture at Loughborough University and in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins. FRAUD’s work has been short-listed for the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award and is part of the permanent collections of the European Investment Bank Institute (LU) and the Art and Nature Centre – Beulas Foundation (SP).