Plâncton
Original video works for online transmission, created by three renowned authors in Portuguese contemporary art: Pedro Tudela, Tatiana Macedo and Henrique Pavão.
These videos are expected to feed the most curious minds, moving around without barriers, schedules or fixed recipients, like the diffuse plankton in the oceans.
Commissioned by Aveiro 2024 - Portuguese Capital of Culture.
These videos are expected to feed the most curious minds, moving around without barriers, schedules or fixed recipients, like the diffuse plankton in the oceans.
Commissioned by Aveiro 2024 - Portuguese Capital of Culture.
TEMPO
by Pedro Tudela
HD video (b/w sound, 13'11‘’)
The moment when tempo and air meet, where matter is torn from the illusion of permanence, is where the truth of existence is revealed.
In this meeting place, where the essence of what is revealed becomes clear, we understand that there is no beginning or end, only the eternal unfolding of a plot without a fixed script, where tempo and air invite us to be part of the dance.
© Pedro Tudela, 2024
by Pedro Tudela
HD video (b/w sound, 13'11‘’)
The moment when tempo and air meet, where matter is torn from the illusion of permanence, is where the truth of existence is revealed.
In this meeting place, where the essence of what is revealed becomes clear, we understand that there is no beginning or end, only the eternal unfolding of a plot without a fixed script, where tempo and air invite us to be part of the dance.
© Pedro Tudela, 2024
RED FLOWER
by Henrique Pavão
HD video (colour and b/w (Super8 film transferred to digital, sound, 9'15‘’)
Kilometres of black and white film were used as fuel for the firing of three urn-shaped terracotta sculptures that would later protect the ashes from the fuel that solidified them.
Camera - Carolina Trigueiros | Super8 camera - Henrique Pavão | Image and sound editing - Henrique Pavão and Miguel de Jesus | Sound mixing and mastering - Gonçalo Barão da Cunha | Colour correction - Henrique Pavão and Miguel de Jesus | Development and scanning (telecine) of Super8 film - Camila Vale | Acknowledgements - Carolina Trigueiros, Carla Revez, Gonçalo Barão da Cunha, João Bragança Gil, Miguel de Jesus, Bruno Múrias Gallery
© Henrique Pavão, 2024
by Henrique Pavão
HD video (colour and b/w (Super8 film transferred to digital, sound, 9'15‘’)
Kilometres of black and white film were used as fuel for the firing of three urn-shaped terracotta sculptures that would later protect the ashes from the fuel that solidified them.
Camera - Carolina Trigueiros | Super8 camera - Henrique Pavão | Image and sound editing - Henrique Pavão and Miguel de Jesus | Sound mixing and mastering - Gonçalo Barão da Cunha | Colour correction - Henrique Pavão and Miguel de Jesus | Development and scanning (telecine) of Super8 film - Camila Vale | Acknowledgements - Carolina Trigueiros, Carla Revez, Gonçalo Barão da Cunha, João Bragança Gil, Miguel de Jesus, Bruno Múrias Gallery
© Henrique Pavão, 2024
THE AGREEMENT
by Tatiana Macedo
Film from medium format b&w negative 6x7, silent, 2'59''
In 2024 we celebrated 50 years of democracy in Portugal. Twenty years ago, in 2004, as a graduate student in Fine Arts at Central St Martins College of Art & Design in London, I photographed these objects in the college photography studio at Charing Cross Road
A small chair, a moribund plant in a pot (that I borrowed from my former college mate David); my everyday boots at the time (nicknamed as my ‘working boots’), brought from Portugal with its tyre rubber soles (unfriendly to my feet) made in Alentejo and reminding me of the struggle of those who resisted the fascism - an iconography of the military boot, handmade by a working class, even if such analogy may or may not be factual; plus a cotton fabric canvas, bought at a fabric shop in Rua dos Fanqueiros in Lisbon, folded for many years as it waited to be painted - but never was.
© Tatiana Macedo, 2024
by Tatiana Macedo
Film from medium format b&w negative 6x7, silent, 2'59''
In 2024 we celebrated 50 years of democracy in Portugal. Twenty years ago, in 2004, as a graduate student in Fine Arts at Central St Martins College of Art & Design in London, I photographed these objects in the college photography studio at Charing Cross Road
A small chair, a moribund plant in a pot (that I borrowed from my former college mate David); my everyday boots at the time (nicknamed as my ‘working boots’), brought from Portugal with its tyre rubber soles (unfriendly to my feet) made in Alentejo and reminding me of the struggle of those who resisted the fascism - an iconography of the military boot, handmade by a working class, even if such analogy may or may not be factual; plus a cotton fabric canvas, bought at a fabric shop in Rua dos Fanqueiros in Lisbon, folded for many years as it waited to be painted - but never was.
© Tatiana Macedo, 2024
