Vinicius will be giving an artist talk at TAIS – Please join us – it’s free and open to the public
DATE: August 16th
TIME: 7:00pm
LOCATION: 1411 Dufferin Street Unit B
Bio
Vinicius de Aguiar Sanchez (b. 1987, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) also known as Vico is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans animation, print, sculpture and sound. His works address imaginaries from mythology, Latin American folklore and science fiction. Conjuring a range of characters and beings, Vico reflects on embodied perspectives of a layered immigrant experience.
He has exhibited in several exhibitions and film festivals, including the Leonard; Bina Ellen Gallery, Montréal, QC, The Robert C. Williams Paper Animation Film Festival, Atlanta, GA (USA), MIT Sciex Film Festival, Cambridge, MA (USA) and The Center for Book Arts, NY (USA).
Vico is currently an M.F.A. candidate in Print-media at Concordia University, in Montréal, Canada and has attended Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (B.F.A. 2011) and the Studio Arts Center International in Florence, Italy (Post Baccalaureate 2012).
Film Synopsis
“Seeing Site Sounds” (2023-2024) is a stop-motion film that travels through an urban
soundscape. Stemming from research of non-objective Filmworks of the early to mid-20 th
century, the work explores the audio-visual phenomena between abstraction and the
representational. The animation follows the optical dance of architectural shapes and
shifting bodies in space, transformed by the urban soundscape. A world of sounds is
revealed as it reverberates through shifting notions of space and sites.
Close to the Fire and the Forest Spirits, Woodcut, 2021