Inauguration: June 10, 6:00 PM
Patent until July 28, 2023
Schedule: 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Monday through Friday
Location: LAC – Laboratório de Actividades Criativas
Free entry
Synopsis
A collaborative project curated by Ricardo Cruzes.
Ana Sousa e Rui Borda are photographers. Ricardo Cruzes is a multi-disciplinary artist who likes to bring together people he likes.
Ana does essentially analog photography, exhaustively exploring the technique, but she has the experimental sensibility to freeze and take advantage of chance, perpetuating it in photographs with winds and movements that make us stop, in the expectation of understanding the object, the depths, the layers, the message. In Ana’s work we get to know Ana, it’s direct like her, it’s mysterious like her.
Rui Borda does digital photography, walking through urbanisms and places that bring people to him, from whom he steals little pieces of life. With his backpack loaded with cameras, lenses, improvised mechanisms that mix the most modern technology with old eastern lenses. Rui makes so many clicks a day, like someone who is afraid that tomorrow the sun will not rise. He is addicted to photography, and it shows in his work, you can see it in his profile. In Rui’s work we get to know the other, those with whom we come across. It’s about him but it doesn’t look like it.
Through cross-talk and mutual friendships the trio was brought together to conceive a project that Ricardo Cruzes set out to organize. In a democratic curation Chaos Theory emerged as a theme, but essentially as a method. Most photographers are first technicians and only then artists. First they shoot for their colleagues, telling them about the roll, the camera, the exposure… whoever is not a photographer should pick up the scraps. Is this description unfair? Eventually yes. In the project of these three you don’t count seconds, you count sensibilities.
In “Chaos Theory with Six Hands” there is not each of the artists, it is more than that, it is new, it is unpredictable, it is exciting because of the uncertainty. One session was enough to raise the material that will make up the exhibition. A session in which it was Ricardo Cruzes who induced the chaos, producing that popular flapping of wings that legends say can have catastrophic consequences. Let’s see. It will be challenging, and unpredictable until opening day, during the exhibition, and the chaotic flow will probably be a shadow for life, and that lack of comfort is comforting.
