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SERGIO CRUZ

Sergio Cruz, Still from the video Outside

Sergio Cruz, Still from the video Exótica

Sergio Cruz was born in 1977 in Portugal. He lives and works between Portugal and England as an artist/filmmaker. He initially studied Sound and Image at Fine Art universities in Portugal and Holland. He has since then collaborated as a sound designer and filmed various dance and performance pieces. With the objective of combining his interest in cinema, performance and fine arts, Cruz undertook two master degrees in London, the first in Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins and the second in “Dance for the Screen” at the London Contemporary Dance School. His art practice has become since then solely devoted to film/video with performance arts as a medium to articulate gesture.

As a result of winning The Red Mansion Art Prize (2007) while at Saint Martins, he travelled to Beijing for a one month residence, to produce a choreographed “road movie”, exploring images from urban and social life in China. In March 2008 he took part in another residence in Maputo to produce a film about Mozambique and in January 2009 was awarded another residency in New York.

These experiences have brought a new direction and dimension to his interests and artistic practice. The articulation between gesture, movement, rhythm and sound within urban and natural landscapes, as signifiers of cultural identity have become key thematic elements in his work.