Silvia Arino Arts Degree Show.

My artwork began as a social project; I firmly believe in the close and undoubted relationship between human beings and art, because understanding our feelings manage us to a better life. My practice investigates how art (i.e. painting, music, theatre, sculpture and literature) is the best way to express ourselves, further than our individualist society. Working with people is the main focus of my practice; it introduces them to a world of freedom and reflection, using art as a healing tool for emptiness.

The first step of my work was an intense study about me, a series of self-portraits together with texts of my thoughts and dairy studies about my behaviour and my routine. The work eventually became solitary and I realized that I wanted to involve people; therefore I started with art therapy sessions in a shelter home. Alongside this, I developed an experiment about our perception of the others and my work has now progressed to incorporating video.

Artists at the end of the 20^th century have been of inspiration, i.e. Gillian Wearing and Lygia Clark, and Marlene Dumas and Paula Rego have influenced my paintings.