Inês Da Silva Aguiar recently graduated from Fine Arts at HKU in Utrecht. Her interest in art developed at a young age as she realised that she gave expression to her thoughts and emotions in a visual form. Indeed, Aguiar’s feelings form the basis of her art and in this way, her artistic expression takes on a personal form and is entwined with her background and identity. Having a mixed ethnic heritage (Turkish Cypriot and Portuguese) and having grown up in a divided city of Nicosia in a contentious political and social environment has informed her interest in the precariousness of identity, which she explored in her final graduation show in an installation called the House of Self. Aguiar uses a variety of mediums, most particularly video, installation, fabric and linocut to explore themes of identity, memory and alienation. Her work, as well as being of a personal nature, aims to involve the audience to ponder topics that are universal to the human experience.