Instantâneas Transparências

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In this collection of all our experiences and non-experiences, how is it that "everything" is so volatile?

 

We tidy and untidy, we accommodate; we give as lost what is permanent to us and we manufacture...

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The experiences, the stories we tell others, the stories we tell ourselves, the dreams, the nightmares that distract us from reality - this process of tidying up in partitions, in layers that are never dissociated from one another - all these are dimensions connect through transparencies, through threads that cannot be seen.

 

The fluidity with which one passes from one idea to another, from a dream or nightmare to reality.

You can see the past, the present and the future, the horizon outlining what is about to happen... the marked past runs and sits, today, contemplating the next phase, what is to come.

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Changes come and stay in the days to come, without waiting to get out of there.

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The archive is to travel in the memory, seeing instant transparencies, doubts, gaps, dreams, fantasies, misshapen things, concrete things, lived landscapes, constructed landscapes..

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​Authors: Ana Antunes and Neiva Vieira

Technique used: Polaroid emulsion lift process

Lisbon Municipal Archive - Photographic | December 2017

 

​Photographs courtesy of Neiva Vieira

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