MOTUS EMPATHES
MOTUS Empathés explores the human movement as essential for the development of empathy through live performance, photography and art-video. The artist bases the project on previous research about Mirror Neurons* and its ability to reproduce the experience of the other, erasing otherness barriers and creating emotional openness. Araujo uses experimental methods to isolate the perception of movement of sociocultural prejudices in order to raise awareness of the universality of our body language and the importance of transcending barriers acquired through cultural codes and habits.