Sandro Trapani

Sandro Trapani lives and works in Potchefstroom, South Africa. For his master’s degree, Trapani’s research focused on how, as an artist, thinking about behaviour influences how we alter behave, and therefore how behaviour alters our thinking. Drawing on the past, heritage, and ethnography, and how we engage with memory can lead to evolved narratives. The cyclical nature of these kinds of reflections can become obscured, absurd and obsessive. The absurd is woven into the fabric of human existence, and the nature of art. Over the past two and a half decades Trapani has explored the Sisyphean nature of the Search for Truth, and how his own truth becomes less and less obtainable, or further obscured, along this journey of discovery.

Part of that journey involves reflecting on his own heritage. For Trapani personal history holds much speculation about where, when, and how events truthfully unfolded or what heirlooms, images, and texts really mean. This can be said about all history, in particular ancient histories. However, in much of his family history information thereof is built on speculation as his father was unclear about his own ancestry growing up as an orphan in Florence, Italy. It is in these facts that the mysterious becomes relevant and engaging. Fields such as archeology do not answer all our questions about our pasts, but the artifacts, relics and objects discovered capture our minds and allow our imaginations to explore possibilities and wonder. New narratives are built on old information.

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