'Hereditas' - Vasco Araujo's exhibition of video works at Sunaparanta

Sunaparanta – Goa Centre for the Arts presents `Hereditas’ an exhibition of 4 video works by phenomenal artist and a powerhouse of talent, Vasco Araújo.

• ‘Hereditas’ reveals the artist’s concerns with memory and identity.
• ‘Insula’ is about the idea of island as a metaphor of the human being, highlighting the notion of one’s inner loneliness as an impulse to the construction and reinvention of its identity.
• ‘Telos’ is about a quest of natural life, that doesn’t depend on the lusts of civilization.
• ‘Retrato’ (Portrait) is a video about the memory, the memory of a place, a home, a family.

Vasco Araújo was born in 1975 in Lisbon, the city where he continues to live and work. He completed his first degree in Sculpture in 1999 at FBAUL (Lisbon University School of Fine Art), and attended the Advanced Course in Visual Arts at Maumaus in Lisbon, from 1999 to 2000. Since then, he has participated in various solo and group exhibitions both in Portugal and abroad, also taking part in residency programmes, such as The University of Arts, Philadelphia