foto: André M. Martins (2022)
“o Santo inimigo do mal” is the artistic and performance name of Saint Clair C Araujo, a Brazilian visual artist born in Porangatu, Goiás. He began his work in 2004, and after a hiatus he resumed his current production in 2020. His academic background includes a degree in Architecture from the Federal University of Goiás and Portland State University, in the United States. His production transits between different visual media and nurtures a particular affection for sculpture and painting. He works between pornography, mystery and libertarianism as a place of (re)invention of the world. He has participated in exhibitions at Galeria A Pilastra (2024), the 4th Vórtice Cultural Festival of Erotic Art (2025) and DeCurators (2025). He was awarded by Funarte (Brazil) in 2022, on the occasion of the Centenary of Semana de 22. His work is inspired by his erotic-spiritual adventures and by provocations from people such as Georges Bataille, Roberto Freire and Osho. Santo's work can be summarized as a visual exploration of the explicit in an autobiographical tone. Like an expanded field of the pornographic gesture where the obscene and the hierophany come together in the same prayer.
“Art emerges in me as an erotic-spiritual desire that points to the crosses between mystery and the concrete. I materialize in pornography, as pornography and for pornography, where I offer a particular and plural narrative, of perceptions, just as in orgasm, just as in life.”
Also glad to:
Group Exhibition at the 4th Vórtice Erotic Art Festival, São Paulo - Brazil (2025);
Exposição Coletiva Falo de Erotismo na Galeria deCurators, Brasília - Brasil (2025);
Publication of artworks in the book "100 Fetishes" by André Medeiros Martins - Brazil (2024);
Collective Exhibition ILHÓ - Novus Artists Show, 4th Edition, Galeria A Pilastra. Brasília - Brazil (2024);
Collective Exhibition 3rd Vórtice Cultural Festival of Erotic Art - São Paulo - Brazil (2024);
Publication in the 1st FaloZine, promoted by Falo Magazine - Brazil (2024);
Collective Exhibition FAR Beyond the Parade. Held at the Objectos do Olhar Gallery during the 27th LGBT+ Pride Parade of São Paulo. (2023);
Group Exhibition at the Hortência Moreira Open Studio. Goiânia- Brazil (2023);
“Fargo Incentive Award” and Group Exhibition of Awarded Artists during the 5th Feira de Arte de Goiás (2023);
Roça Grossa Artistic Residency - Campos do Jordão - São Paulo - Brasil (2023);
Awarded for the Design and Conception of the Medal: "Anita Malfatti: Woman, Pioneer, and Forerunner of the Week of 22. Award granted by Funarte on the occasion of the centenary of the 1922 Week of Modern Art (2022);
Published in the 8th edition of the Fruta Bruta Magazine - “Er8tica. (2021);
"M.U.S.A." Group Exhibition - Exhibition of 22 artists selected through an international call for entries - São Paulo - Brazil (2022);
Group Exhibition "NUDE - The Eduardo Vasconcelos Collection" at the Benedito Nunes Gallery. Branco de Melo Award from Fundação Cultural do Estado do Pará Belém - Brasil (2022);
Selected for the 7th DiGo Festival of Gender and Sexual Diversity in Goiás - Participation with the short film "Body Service Report" (2022);
Selected for the “II Salão Vermelho das Artes Degeneradas” for the “PICA Prize” by Ateliê Sanitário (2022);