Born 1974 Catania, Salvatore Arancio lives and works between London and Nice. Graduated from MA Fine Art Photography, Royal College of Art (2005).

The main interest at the centre of Arancio's artistic practice lies in the potential of images and particularly how images and their meaning can be re-framed or re-viewed. Arancio plays with symbols always aiming to retain a certain ambivalence in his work. Through the use of a range of media: ceramics, etching, collage, animation and video, he gives the sensation of a compact and homogeneous concept, regardless of the fact that his practice is paradoxically composed of contrasting elements. Each of its facets, contains an intertwining juxtaposition of the roots and representation of images: natural and artificial, mineral and vegetable, two-dimensional and three-dimensional, scientific and mythological. Departing from their literal meaning, Arancio creates new juxtapositions that are both beautifully evocative and deeply disquieting. His work functions like an Atlas of confusion, like figures in positivistic scientific volumes devoid of any substantial image and left only with a vague ambiguous frame.