About

The practice of Salvatore Arancio explores our (limited) understanding of the world. Employing a wide range of references including Victorian illustrations or classic sci-fi cinema, his sculptures, collages and videos, produce a fablelike iconography which illustrates a speculative approach to reality. This is a universe where humans are absent, having been extinct or even never existed. The resulting mythic landscapes are populated by biomorphic elements which are animated via a number of manipulations often involving colour. Arancio’s playful, geological, alchemical, dream-like and narcotic …