SOFIA BARAO
I see my work as wall pieces where layers of paint, papers, drawings and images can be seen as if time had started its work of forgetness, of erasement. A poetic and decay atmosphere. My work is a reflection of myself. My childhood, the way I see life and death, my woman’s life... I strive to keep a trace, to question identity and memories, to reinvent a story, to rebuild a past, maybe my own. Nature, time and the Woman are the main themes of my work. The Woman in particular, inspires me; I seek her, decorticate her, and invent her. She's part of a whole in my work. I question myself about the relationship between women and time that passes by: through them, on them, with them. My work is definitely about my quest for my missing part...
Sofia Barao loves everything vintage and romantic and is passionate about the end of the 19th and early 20th century era. She grew up in Portugal, studied in Switzerland, and now lives in a small town in France (L'Isle Adam, which is in the middle of a forest between a river and a lake) just 45 minutes from Paris.