PASSAGES , 2018/19

Passages is biuld  out of photographs from Germany, England and Brazil, using analog photography and digital manipulation processes. The photographs are reconstructed through overlays, erasures and cuttings, in a process of thinking about how memory and imagination work. I try to emphasize not only these layers, but also the fine line in which the lived and imagined memories are lost and found, where real and fabulation are confused, such as inside and outside, and where a public place also recalls more intimate and familiar spaces . First I choose the film, for its materiality, the randomness, the delay and the charm of waiting and, secondly, the digital manipulation that, as the name already says, manipulates and reconstructs the events and the memory itself. This manipulation is not, therefore, by chance or aesthetics, but because it recognizes in a present time relationships between other times, experiences and places. Once the photographs are merged, it is difficult to think of them as an event of a single instant, of the photographed instant. I now remember when the clouds were so low that it was possible to see them flying over Wansee lake and turned into a mist that arrived on the facade of the church of São Francisco de Assis, in Ouro Preto. From the shadow of the window of my room in Belo Horizonte an English bird flew away from the cranes of London and did not find a house in the trunks of the Cologne trees, from where I could see the train station through the window. It sounds crazy, but there was a guy standing right in the middle of the train tracks and you will remember him there, but I still remember him watching a river go by.