São Paulo Residency: Breviário do Brasil (2017)
Invited by the artist and author João Sousa Cardoso, this site-specific installation features three projections and two screens. It serves as a reflection on contemporary Brazil and is located at Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade in São Paulo, Brazil. The installation is the result of a 7-day workshop with local inhabitants. Video and photographs provide perspectives of the installation.
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3 Voltas (2016)
Three mupi prints installed at Mupi Gallery, Maus Hábitos (Porto, Portugal).
Hypnotic eyes lead you on a journey that concludes with a flat tire and a cake transporter repurposed as a shield.
Actors (2014)
Nine prints displayed in an installation at Sismógrafo (Porto, Portugal). These are portraits of toy soldier statues representing military figures from the Military Museum in Porto (Portugal). The statue of an actor, immortalized by history, is encased in glass. The portraits are captured as if on a stage, photographed within a simulated black box, all while remaining on their glass shelves.
“Without Mercy” constitutes a collective exhibition that breathes life into a series of conversations about the events during the Portuguese Carnation Revolution. This exhibition further underscores how certain issues from the past persist into the present day, ranging from the right to housing to the necessity of reflecting on the fate of democracy. It extends to a broader debate around the concept of community.
Estação dos Correios da Rua Dupin (2014)
Video Installation at Espaço Mira (Porto, Portugal), based on the book “The Post Station at Dupin Street” by Marguerite Duras and François Mitterrand. The group exhibition “The Sun Was About Him - She Says” was inserted into the centennial celebrations of Marguerite Duras and curated by Manuel Santos Maia.
In this installation, a virtual opera singer (Adriana Romero) performs the words of a mundane conversation between Marguerite Duras and François Mitterrand. An audience of empty chairs arranged diagonally, an opera singer who seems absent, a phantom on an elevated stage illuminated by a skylight, and a sentence written in white chalk on the floor create a unique atmosphere. Sound echoes through the space, creating a sacred-like ambiance. The public is invited to take a seat.
Act V, Scene I (2014)
Installation with one slide projection, a stage, and a chair in an abandoned office building (downtown Porto, Portugal). Figuras do Novo Império was a group exhibition featuring artists Horácio Frutuoso, João Pedro Trindade, De Almeida e Silva, and Tiago Alexandre.
Exploring the boundaries between cinema and theatre, the virtual image of an audience (projected as a fixed slide) portrays the artists of the exhibition sitting and watching. This virtual audience faces an empty stage, where the sentence “Il cinema è un’invenzione senza avvenire” (Cinema is an invention without a future) is written. A chair is positioned to invite the audience to sit, with their backs turned to the artists, encouraging them to enjoy the invisible show. The quote “Il cinema è un’invenzione senza avvenire” is taken from Jean-Luc Godard’s film Le Mépris, where the sentence is inscribed on the wall of a screening room, beneath the screen.
Inszenierte Reise (2013)
Three Fujitran prints and polystyrene installation at Maus Hábitos (Porto, Portugal).
Inszenierte Reise captures a cinematic journey without movement, rendered obsolete and out of place. It does so through enlarged original slides sourced from the archives of the Film History Museum in Vienna. In this installation, a false snowy landscape, originally part of a film set, is displaced within a glasshouse, situated on the top floor of a bar during hot summer nights in Porto.
The poor old tired house (2013)
Super 8mm film lightbox, thread counter, and looped video projection, featured as part of the exhibition “Printed Matters” at the Museum of Fine Arts, University of Porto (Portugal).
The Poor Old Tired House reimagines the artist book beyond the conventional realm of printed text on paper. It narrates the story of an old and tired, now empty building that has lost its purpose. This narrative unfolds as subtitles in a black super 8mm film, arranged throughout the film’s length like lines of prose, made legible through a thread counter. To be read slowly, patiently.
