also the use of soundscapes and original music.
Basically, the conceptual outline goes from the political visual essay (violence in history) to a deeper more introspective way, like expressing the Freudian psychoanalysis (Erotism) or going into Nietzsche’s philosophy (Nihilism).
Aesthetically is inspired mainly in two close-related modern and post-modern movements: surrealism (language) and pop art (technique). It is also assumed a strong link – formal and informal – to the history of the cinema.
More recently jumps to another step by using original shooting and going into fiction and experimental narrative work, mixing projects involving also literature and photography: film or short narratives expressing inner and outer feelings.
Video-cut method:
The process consists in the cut and re-assembly of video frames, copied from the original and inserted later in a completely distinct approach.
Sampler:
Not being a “pure-artist, chooses the term sampler to identify himself and his work: a term derived from the Latin ‘exemplum’ (example) and a method following a pattern range from a simple sample to the creation of a complex new thing (a brand new parallel world of color and feeling). At end a new range widely in style, from accurate reproductions of life pieces to others much more deep in future.
museum, exhibitions and cultural shows). Recently initiated his own activity in the making of conceptual video and photography.
Portuguese African-native, video artist and curator.
In 2006, started a long-term visual conceptual project: a work in progress that includes single-channel video, explorations of archive film, experimental movies and conceptual photography. Also the founder of the Freedom of Choice International Video project, which, in 2008, took place in the cities of Lisbon, Istanbul and Yerevan.
In 2008 was invited to join two international collaborative video-art projects: Exquisite Corpse (ECVP) and Human Emotion Project (HEP). Inside those groups has been creating several collaborative video works – in partnership or at solo – then used in worldwide screening events and in gallery installations.
As a video-art curator founds and manages the Freedom of Choice International Video project – a kind of festival based on the subject of freedom of choice, peace and human rights - held last December, simultaneously in Portugal, Turkey and Armenia. By the same time assume also the curatorship of the Human Emotion Project in Portugal, managing already two exhibitions in state museums for 2009.
Meanwhile, the art project maintains a prolific international development with works been screen, exhibit and broadcast (TV), in in-door and out-door events, all over the world, mainly in festivals, museums, independent galleries or art spaces: Portugal (Lisbon, Alcobaça, Caldas-da-Rainha), Spain (Madrid, Valladolid, Cordoba, Gijon), The Netherlands(The Hague), France (Paris), Turkey (Istanbul), Armenia (Yerevan), USA (New York, Providence, Berkeley), Australia (Melbourne), Sweden (Stockholm), Brazil (Aracaju), Georgia (Villa Garikula) and the upcoming of Italy (Rome and Turim), China (Macau), Germany (Cologne) and UK (London).
