Séma Chéein
Sometimes it happens that objects release a discrete energy. All things contain a veil within them; we have it in our gaze and sometimes we would like to remove it. The purpose of the acts of seeing and thinking is to reach where it was never possible to reach before; but to put the veil over something also means to save and resuscitate that something, to present it another way. In this series of photographs, Séma Chéein, there is a form where the temporal submersion gives us a more removed quality… the neutrality of Time. It is in this neutrality that the series takes part in.
From the window from below
My aim was to link visual echoes of Constantine Cavafy ́s poems with a space created by light. A delicate light like a tremulous sound in a photo-miniature, a special coloring and light experience of reading a poem. There is a strong feeling of space within space, a world within another world in an atmosphere created by a light that changes, limits or expands the vision. I used a fragile and thin material, paper, to build these small structures, to light these poems. Nuance and ambiguity nourishes these photographs, these attempts ‘to resurrect once-loved shadows’
Portuguese, 38 ans, lives in Lisbon.
Bruno Dias Vieira
