Forever
As most people, I didn't really know how to deal with the meaning of graveyards and much less about the main thing they're about: death. There was a moment in my life where I started to give a different meaning to these places, to death and to loss. What stays here when someone leaves? What happens to their stuff? How do you keep the memory alive of someone you don't want to forget? - these are things that keep constantly coming to me and I am still trying to figure them out.
"Forever" was born in the spaces that were once inhabited by bodies that are no longer here, it grew in spaces where these bodies lie for eternity and it ends in the perception of each viewer that crosses paths with these images. In lost graves I found colour that contrasts with the black of grief; many times found in plastic flowers that, ironically, make me wonder about the eternity of life. As long as it lives in someone, anybody or anything lives. Memory is the home of all people and all moments that can no longer be touched and that is what "Forever" is about.
Porto and Vila do conde, 2019 — 2024
As most people, I didn't really know how to deal with the meaning of graveyards and much less about the main thing they're about: death. There was a moment in my life where I started to give a different meaning to these places, to death and to loss. What stays here when someone leaves? What happens to their stuff? How do you keep the memory alive of someone you don't want to forget? - these are things that keep constantly coming to me and I am still trying to figure them out.
"Forever" was born in the spaces that were once inhabited by bodies that are no longer here, it grew in spaces where these bodies lie for eternity and it ends in the perception of each viewer that crosses paths with these images. In lost graves I found colour that contrasts with the black of grief; many times found in plastic flowers that, ironically, make me wonder about the eternity of life. As long as it lives in someone, anybody or anything lives. Memory is the home of all people and all moments that can no longer be touched and that is what "Forever" is about.
Porto and Vila do conde, 2019 — 2024