Inauguration of “Silêncio” exhibition in the photography gallery of São João da Madeira Art Center

My first solo exhibition is called “Silêncio” at the Photography Gallery of São João da Madeira Art Center from February 15 to March 22.

It will feature two works: "Silêncio" and its continuation, "Silêncio II," which will be shown to the public for the first time.

Silêncio (2018)

Look at everything. Don`t close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

John Cage - “Silence - Lectures and Writings”

This series of images is a reinterpretation of a musical archive, capturing an intimate visual language. A nostalgic look emerges from the shapes and textures of the paper, reconstructing reflections of memories.

I think about the image musically, trying to create times, rhythms and even harmonies from it. The search for diIerent melodic forms acts as a means of abstract self-representation, where I record my reality. In order to provoke the curiosity of those who come across these works, I leave the music present within these scores unrevealed as well as their rhythms and melodies. The intrinsic and close connection with music, an evocation of memories in my family environment and a fascination with musical scores and writing make this series a set of fragments that I think are part of my own identity.

Silêncio II (2018-2020)

“Silêncio II” is the result of the junction of two coexisting universes: writing in musical scores and the artist in his most fragile physical humanity revealing an intimacy of the eye, through the close connection between the author and the person being photographed.

A nostalgic look emerges from the shapes and textures of the sheets of music paper, reconstructing reflections of memories. The records of diGerent elements of the body suggest the identity of the author's parents, both musicians and interpreters, becoming vulnerable through their gaze.

As her father said, each new work is an open space and this series is a mirror of that, that side of continuity and openness. I would like these images to convey a sensitivity, a moment of delicacy, a pure feeling and an invisible poetry.

I think about the image musically.

The photographs are from 2018 to 2020.