

Vasco Araújo
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The gaze of Medusa, a female figure from Greek mythology that petrified anyone who looked at her, is inverted to look directly into a mirror revealing a man who incarnates her while singing a fado about the fate of her destiny. Entre Actos #1 (2020), one of the video sculptures, operates in a deconstructive exercise of the constancy and conventionality of certain systems – where Medusa can be a man, and a man who looks directly into a mirror. In the myth, it is the mirrored surface of the shield that determines Medusa’s decapitation – imprisoning her by her own image through a game of gazes involved in tensions between self and other.
Exhibitions
2022 Pathosformel, Rialto6, Lisbon
2020 Pathosformel, Escola das Artes da Universidade Católica do Porto, PortoJoin our mailing list
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