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'Identity stories', by Vasco Araújo

Born in Lisbon in 1975, Vasco Araújo is one of the key artists in the contemporary Portuguese art scene. In Identity stories he uses metaphorical narratives, plots of loneliness and missed encounters, to allegorically represent the change in man, and the dichotomy between the real and unreal.

Within the Nit de l'Art (Art Night) he represents two video works, Vulcano (2012) and Ínsula (2010). The first is accompanied by six wall mounted works on wood panels painted with volcanoes and phrases from the video. With the second, a representation of a series of 14 drawings on cardboard inspired by maps drawn in the middle ages

Vulcano is a filming of 26 copies of paintings of volcanoes from the eighteenth century, while a text speaks of the parallel between a volcanic eruption and the psychological revolution of man.

Ínsula leaves room for physical and psychological comparison between an island and humans, where a change in any situation or physical condition makes the original condition become absolutely unrecognizable. He uses the inner solitude as an impetus for the construction of identity and reinvention.

http://www.vascoaraujo.org