Parallel Take-offs is a series of collages, a sandbox for a visual language developed over time mixing photography, drawing and computer generated elements.
Caio is a visual artist and filmmaker. Born in Monte Real, Caio finished Art and Media degrees in the art universities of Lisbon (BA) and Berlin (MA), received scholarships from the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in 2015, and from the Berlin Senate in 2022-23 (Elsa-Neumann-Stipendium), and has been part of the Raumerweiterungshalle collective project-space for 2013-2023, at Berlin Ostkreuz. At the end of 2016, he was nominated with the artist group Moles/Mules for the Bundespreis für Kunststudierende (German federal prize for art students). His works and collaborations have been shown across the globe.
His practice as an artist is influenced by his 10+ years of engagement within Berlin’s queer collective landscape, as well as his experiences of migration, which he has known in different ways - geographical, assigned gender, class - up and down the intricate scale as a precarious artist and freelancer.
He explores these intricacies through queer storytelling, humor, and some autofiction. He is creating a camp visual universe linking class-bound, d.i.y. aesthetics with “Hollywood- techniques” made accessible by open-source and free releases of state-of-the-art softwares in the last decades. This multilayered and openly broken universe serves to host and potentiate alternative societal models proposed by queer-feminist science-fiction, exploring 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, Samuel R. Delany, among others.
caio.am.soares@gmail.com