Solo exhibition, Photography Gallery of São João da Madeira Art Center, Portugal, 2025

Silêncio

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 different 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” was exhibited in ART Expo Trieste 2024, an International Biennale of Contemporary Art in December of 2024. It was also exhibited in “Emerger. que nace, atraviesa, sale y tiene: Principio de Otra Cosa”, a collective exhibition with Leonardo Collective in Matiz Art Gallery, in Barcelona, in November of 2024. It was first exhibited in X`18 Exhibition, a collective exhibition in Mute Gallery in Lisboa in 2018.

“Silêncio” was also published in the latest issue of Artist Close Up Contemporary Art Magazine, Issue 25 in 2024.

Silêncio II

“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 different 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.

“Silêncio II” was published in issue 16 of AlTiba9 Contemporary Art Magazine.