Uma Casa Portuguesa 2019
Uma Casa Portuguesa is a photographic, narrative, personal, intimate process that turns out to be public. Details are captured, which often escape from less attentive looks: objects, the immediate, the fortuitous, and the instantaneous. This project arises from the action of investigating and observing in detail my grandmother’s behavior, as well as the environment in which she operates. Personal archives, maps, and family relationships were analyzed. This investigation allowed a concentration on the poetic dimension of the real as an agent of activating memory and discovery. It is a biographical photographic narrative, but also an autobiographical one as the research focuses on familiar aspects that were revealing. allowing a reflection on issues such as the perception of time, memory, home, history, and family ties.
Uma Casa Portuguesa 2019
Uma Casa Portuguesa is a photographic, narrative, personal, intimate process that turns out to be public. Details are captured, which often escape from less attentive looks: objects, the immediate, the fortuitous, and the instantaneous. This project arises from the action of investigating and observing in detail my grandmother’s behavior, as well as the environment in which she operates. Personal archives, maps, and family relationships were analyzed. This investigation allowed a concentration on the poetic dimension of the real as an agent of activating memory and discovery. It is a biographical photographic narrative, but also an autobiographical one as the research focuses on familiar aspects that were revealing. allowing a reflection on issues such as the perception of time, memory, home, history, and family ties.
Uma Casa Portuguesa 2019
Uma Casa Portuguesa is a photographic, narrative, personal, intimate process that turns out to be public. Details are captured, which often escape from less attentive looks: objects, the immediate, the fortuitous, and the instantaneous. This project arises from the action of investigating and observing in detail my grandmother’s behavior, as well as the environment in which she operates. Personal archives, maps, and family relationships were analyzed. This investigation allowed a concentration on the poetic dimension of the real as an agent of activating memory and discovery. It is a biographical photographic narrative, but also an autobiographical one as the research focuses on familiar aspects that were revealing. allowing a reflection on issues such as the perception of time, memory, home, history, and family ties.
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Sofia Bravo Neves
Portugal
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Sofia Bravo Neves (Portugal, 1994) studied Multimedia at the Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto. Her last year was divided between Porto and Bilbao, where she finished her degree in Art and Technology at the Facultad de Bellas Artes UPV/EHU. At the same university, she continued her studies, completing her master’s degree in Contemporary Technological and Performing Art.
Her artistic practice relates to themes such as human perception, memory, and the relationship between individuals, time, and space. Her work reflects about absence, nostalgia, Saudade, and other primitive emotions. It is through different apprehensions of space, materials, and techniques — photography and printmaking —that the research is transformed, converted, and embodied in installations and small books. The creation of maps and schemes are an essential component in the work process.