Name: Guardado
Age: 36
Nationality: Portuguese
Residence: Almada, Portugal
Guardado
Photographer, plastic artist, graphic designer and writer, Guardado is a portuguese artist who has chosen image as the main way to express his vision of the world. As a conceptual photographer, his versatility has led him to create several works in the documentary photography and fine art photography.
In addition to his studies on photography, Guardado is also graduated in anthropology, which has led him to add a social and human depth to the artistic dimension of his work. In 2005 he published the book Poetic Anthology of My Imaginary Friends and in 2006 had its first exhibition in Lisbon, where he presented his works in the fields of photography, painting, installation and writing. Since then he participate in several collective and individual exhibitions for some of his projects and is preparing at the moment a new exhibition to present is new series. He was chosen to represent ETIC in the Vila Franca de Xira’s Biennale of Photography and he was presented as a “new talent” by the magazine DirectArts International.
Tell me who you are – Photographic series
“Tell me who you are” … Through your eyes and a blank sheet.
Who are those persons that stand before us? How occupy their time, what are their fears, desires and values? With this series we will not find objective answers to any of these questions, however learn that we can discover so much about a person only for looking to their eyes and to the result of their free interaction with the paper sheet.
The series start with a simple proposal: do whatever you want with a blank sheet. The result of the person interaction with the blank sheet and an image that reveals their eyes are all the information that we get from the portrayed. It is from this dialogue with the other, that we become aware of our own existence, the proof of that is in the fact that we see our image reflected in the eyes of others.
