BROTHERS' PLAY. Showing color.
Door Camilio, 2017
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Video still 06: Showing true color. Filling the body imprints by the performers with the “two” contrasting food item colors is an "obvious reference" to their skin color, and in this situation the colors of the food items were not matching their skin color, but where intentionally swapped. Because, maybe, the “white” performer has a more “brown” mind-set than one could observe from just the outside, and the “black” person maybe has a more western mind-set that one can access externally, still we cannot wipe out there backgrounds and histories and that is way they are performing together and show this to you in a positive mindset and and wanting to move constructively forward together (as one). For viewing the performance film, klick on this "picture and text" page and you will find the link to You Tube. If (by clicking) you came on that "enlarged picture page" please scroll down on this window to find the film.
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Over Camilio
The work of Camilio (1973, The Netherlands, currently working and living in the Asia Pacific region) often considers human social (miss)behaviour in time-, social- and site-specific context and dimensions most often in the context of nature (trees i.a.) and often expressed with the non-colour white. Since he moved to the Southern Africa region (2014) Camilio started creating a, for him, new form of art (after being “visual silence” for almost 8 years), re-energized by new surroundings, context, nature and people. He applies a minimalist method often using the public domain to explore conceptually driven, sometimes performative interventions where he (often) act as the devil’s advocate. He uses many different materials (and methods) to relate to the (social) context, environmen