Bruno Lopes

untitled, © Bruno Lopes

The small nucleus of photographs presented here in the context of the Paisagem estranha entranha exhibition, are part of a more extensive production in continual development, an attempt to think about human intervention on landscape, emphasizing models and resistances, latent instabilities of an imposed order, moments of counterposition between a planned perennial structuring of space and the ancestral and untamed freedom of a natural setting that rapidly incorporates and, gradually, reconverts. BL

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Margarida Dias | MD25

MD25, © Margarida Dias

[...]"It is almost inevitable to remember Alice who, lost in Wonderland, decifers enigmas, finds beauty and ugliness, good and bad, sanity and madness, running away from, and trying to find, herself in an immense and beautiful underground garden where, having to face many and unexpected adventures, she finds and explores capacities previously unknown to her.
Margarida Dias has always worked to simplify metaphors and enigmas, in no hurry. Her rabbit is not the White Rabbit who, with an enormous watch, led Alice to his burrow that would later reveal an unending tunnel that once passed, took her to a long corridor leading to an atrium surrounded by closed doors that impose on her choices as decisions." [...]

Excerpts from Entre a casa exterior e a casa interior by Ana Isabel Ribeiro.

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Nick Rochowski & Tim Bowditch | HIND LAND

Hind Land, © Nick Rochowski & Tim Bowditch

Hind Land is a collaborative work by photographers Nick Rochowski and Tim Bowditch, surveying the pedestrian walkways beneath London’s Orbital M25 motorway. Since it’s completion 25 years ago the M25 has dramatically changed the landscape of the surrounding area and come to define the boundary of the city.

We are fascinated by the voids left by the motorway as it carves through the landscape. The road divides the countryside in two, leaving a visible and audible rip in the environment above the ground, and a no-man's land beneath.

We aim to survey these voids at night, using an Achromatic Digital Back capable of creating wide spectrum black and white images, a technology often used for aerial surveillance, as it is able to record the visible as well as the infrared and ultraviolet parts of the spectrum.  NR & TB (excerpts).

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Valter Ventura | MAPAS PRECEDENTES, «Compendium of Nothing» series

Compêndio do nada series © Valter Ventura

  The map precedes the territory 

Jean Baudrillard,
Simulacra and Simulations, 1983. 

In language "being" (person) and "being" (place) are confusing terms. One of the most remote philosophical questions combines personal knowledge ("Who am I?"), with the idea of traveling in space ("where I come from?" and "where am I going?").
The notion of nothing is astounding. We don't know it, we don't possess the words to describe it, and we don't have the images to identify it. It's the border of what we are, and the boundary of were we are.VV

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