Irineu Destourelles was born in Santo Antão, Cabo Verde, in 1974, and lives in Edinburgh, UK.
He is a visual artist whose artistic practice centers speculatively on the impact of discursive violence on personality. Working predominantly with images in motion and paying particular attention to the concepts through which social categories are constructed, he proposes new and problematic states of being. His works have been shown at Museu Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon, 2019), MAMA Showroom (Rotterdam, 2019), Goodman Gallery (Cidade do Cabo, 2019), Transmission (Glasgow, 2017), Transmediale (Berlin, 2015) and Videobrasil 18 (São Paulo, 2013), among others. He studied fine art at Willem de Kooning Academy (Roterdão) and Central Saint Martins (London).