Vaza e o tempo não guarda
The artist proposed to work on the theme of emigration from the conflict between the rural and the urban, however, without the aim of presenting the rural in its common places of isolation. Asserting that old age or even decay, the memory of rurality is often presented from this perspective: rural as old, urban as new. His research experience on the emigration from Beirã to Lisbon brought him a certain sensitivity that he intended to develop: in what way does memory as a prerequisite of being relate to the almost Freudian conflict of the dream and the real path of the experiences of the workers and peoples of any region. Memory, which often functions as a validator of reality (“This Happened”, “This Was Here”), has within itself an adialectic between the official and the unofficial/the written and the spoken/the registered and the transmitted.
Dealing with the theme of emigration, as well as the dialectic between rural and urban memory, requires a strong research component from any artist. The same appears as an obligatory condition for the artist who, like Araújo, proposes to enter the archive space.
In this sense, Araújo proposed that artistic practice should be based on treating the archive as a primordial tool. The scope of her artistic research, for the Master’s – Precisely about this Binomial between the archive and the audiovisual medium – also makes the conceptual framework more immediate for the practices of the archive, since it could frame her investigation to the artistic practice to be developed in the residency . In the same way, the inverse course can be taken, that is, to frame the works produced as references of the master’s thesis.
André Araújo is a musician and visual artist, born in Porto in 1999. His work focuses on the relationship between sound and image as a vehicle to address social issues and themes of memory. Oppression/repression, violence, politics and society.
A musician by training, he has played the flute since childhood, which culminated in his studies at the Porto Music Conservatory, where he transitioned from Classical music to Jazz. He had the pleasure of studying with several emblematic Portuguese musicians, such as: João Pedro Brandão and Paulo Gomes. After playing on different stages and groups in Portugal-including the 150 Festa do Jazz do São Luiz, additionally, he joined the KONINKLIJK CONSERVATORIUM BRUSSEL (Royal Conservatory of Brussels,f Belgium) where he completed a degree in Jazz (CUM LAUDE) with John Ruocco as your mentor.