Caio Amado Soares
Based in Monte Real, Berlin and Lisbon
Interdisciplinary Artist and Filmmaker
Artist in Residence: 1.10. - 31.10.2023
Through queer science-fantasy fiction, and a dash of clumsy humor, he explores social and existential questions brought to him by his experiences of migration, which he has known in different ways - geographical, assigned gender, class (up and down through artistic and educational scholarship funding).
How are these different types of migration interrelated? Who can live where? Which existences or lifestyles are accepted, even possible, across geography, across class?
Stemming from the need to imagine a place of fairness and solidarity, their work analyses the dynamics of self-organised collectivity and those of one’s own changing nature. It is inspired by the worlds created by Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia E. Butler, Marge Piercy and Samuel R. Delany, providing great insights into different possible societal structures, and helping shape empowering alternatives.
This residency ist a cooperation with Coalmine - Raum für Fotografie, Winterthur.