“Visual chronicles of where I haven’t been” by Sally Santiago
Opening: February 15 at 6pm, with the artist present.
Patent until: March 1st, 2025
Location: LAC – Laboratório de Actividades Criativas
Price: Free Entry
Partnership with GNRation (Braga), as part of the RPAC – Portuguese Contemporary Art Network
Synopsis
The audiovisual installation Visual chronicles of where I haven’t been proposes thinking about certain facets of fictional and narrative space through the construction of particular realities. In this work, Sally Santiago starts from childhood stories of people from older generations, transmitted through overlaps or small lapses of memory, typical of the act of remembering. Referring to events that took place in 1950 on an Atlantic island, the three episodes now serve as the basis for the construction of the three chronicles presented here, as scenarios where a long journey of signs is established, ideas and images, between a past that expands, recreating itself, and a present that is permeated and fictionalized. The artist promotes the opening up of the multiplicity and multiplication of the territory of the possible, where the appropriation of memories serves to boost sensitive perceptions of new actions and landscapes, both concrete and emotional, embodying an experimental alternative to contemporary speed and a certain current inability to look and feel. Interpolating themes from daily life, where subjective planes are tinged with humor and irony, between games of figures and characters that interact under a particular slowness and melancholy, this installation seeks to work in the interval between the visible and the invisible, the tangible and the intangible, leading the viewer to the exercise of recollection, projection and reconstruction of their own memory.
Biography
Technical Sheet
Visual chronicles of where I haven’t been
2024, three video channels, 4K, 3:2, Color, Mono
left 4′56″ / center 4′28″ / right 3′10″
Direction, text, production and post-production by
Sally Santiago
Voice
Teresa Arêde
Thanks
Claudio Bueno
Melissa Devidé
Alfredo Peniche
Casa da Arnada Gião
Adriano Vitorino
Films inspired by stories told by Nati and Armando Caires
Songs
Britta Phillips, Million Dollar Doll, Permission of the artist
Ivan Ilic, Piano Sonata in B minor, Hob. XVI:32 – I. Allegro moderato, Creative Commons License
Sofja Gülbadamova, Six Musical Moments, D. 780 – III. Allegro moderato in F minor, Creative Commons License
