11.11.2014

Joanna, the ballerina, resting as we talk, 2014

Uma razão do cinema, outra da fotografia, é esta, que me mantém em diálogo com ambos.

«O gesto não é um elemento absolutamente não linguístico, mas algo que mantém com a linguagem uma relação mais íntima e, sobretudo, uma força que opera na própria língua, mais antiga e originária do que a expressão conceptual: gesto linguístico (Sprachegebärde)» 

Giorgio Agamben, 'A potência do pensamento'

21.09.2014

hunting butterflies, studies of gesture, 2014


«he practices a cult with the moths and butterflies that fly into his room at night. he speaks to them for hours. He calls them his little soul animals (seelentierchen) and tells them about his suffering...»

Philippe-Alain Michaud, 'Aby Warburg and the Image in Motion'



03.08.2014

intimate nudes, 2014


«Não é a lassitude que põe termo ao amor, ou antes, esta lassitude nasce da impaciência, da impaciência dos corpos que se sabem condenados e que gostariam de viver, que gostariam, no lapso de tempo que lhes cabe, de não deixar escapar nenhuma ocasião, de não deixar escapar nenhuma possibilidade, que gostariam de utilizar ao máximo este tempo de vida limitado, em declínio, medíocre, que é o seu, e que portanto não conseguem amar quem quer que seja, pois todos os outros lhes parecem limitados, em declínio, medíocres.»

Michel Houellebecq, 'A Possibilidade de uma Ilha'

19.07.2014

Being at a distance
look up to the pathway.
This field of presence
is in the way
between the interval of trees,
between the trees.




Ernst and trees, BCN 2010
our pathway
Marga before haircut



25.06.2014


«O esquema cromático é azul e branco» leio do livro que tens nas mãos, do qual me citas uma passagem enquanto metidos nas áleas mais verdes da cidade. Falas dos ouvintes, da língua, da escrita. 

Les Calanques, Cassis, 2010

ballet class, Feb. 2014

Everyday, looking for the structure of gesture.



1 city and 1 slide film in my pocket

with the collaboration of Stansted Airport's x-ray!

Fulham 





This house had this singular handwritten wooden plaque by the door saying REFLEXOLOGY, so I rang the bell and met Mr. Reflexology who had just got rid off some stuff he didn't need anymore, plates, cups, etc., leaving them for those who want to pick them up, carefully positioned over the wall. He seemed a calm person. I asked him if I could take a portrait and he asked me what was it for, I told him I would just like to have his portrait and he agreed, pulled off his small comb from his pocket and adjusted himself. We said goodbye but didn't said our names.

Days after I was holding the camera in the street and noticed this woman walking and smiling towards me, so she asked me if I was doing some lomography. I had this beautiful heavy camera in my hands and told her I wasn't. So this is the portrait of the smiling Ati, Indonesian, who after the picture was leaving in a rush as I asked her name, she likes lomography but doesn't make it anymore.


Hyde Park
SLADE, UCL


City







Bela


And this is what was in my ears:
Greek statue, British Museum, 20.Jan.14
self, workplace, 27.Jan.14

Obsessed with being, and forgetful of the perspectivism of my experience, I henceforth treat it as an object and deduce it from a relationship between objects. I regard my body, which is my point of view upon the world, as one of the objects of that world. My recent awareness of my gaze as a means of knowledge I now repress, and treat my eyes as bits of matter. They then take their place in the same objective space in which I am trying to situate the external object and I believe that I am producing the perceived perspective by the projection of the objects on my retina. In the same way I treat my own perceptual history as a result of my relationships with the objective world; my present, which is my point of view on time, becomes one moment of time among all the others, my duration a reflection or abstract aspect of universal time, as my body is a mode of objective space.”  

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 'Phenomenology of Perception'