┐ roots & fruits #15 – Nuno Venâncio └

it reads: We are looking for the sky in between the leafs. Text by Boris.

it reads: Here, the sun gives us no light, only new shadows. Different ways to face the darkness. Text by Boris.

it reads: People insist on coming to meet our gaze, invading it. Text by Boris.

© Nuno Venâncio, from the series 10 Metros de Cabo/10 Meters of Cable.

“Here, easy beauty is eliminated, fulminated, by force, through chock and discontinuity.
Here, there’s no attempt to make sense. We try for symmetry not in the form but in the content – there are casual symmetries in the photographic objects, particularly in those where there is no such deliberation – the irony of everyday events (the symmetry with people is something no one looks out for in the everydayness, except in a staging situation or with some pervert god).
Photographs per se are not symmetrical, there’s no effort to achieve such a valance. In fact, they are askew. The relations between the objects. Everything with its notorious everydayness: each image the start of a journey, coming from a primary need to find out what is around us, in front of us, and grasp it, so that it helps with location, knowing where to go and understanding other places.
There is a constant demand, a quest for something to call our own or something we miss; there is also a searching for a moment, that special visual glimpse, that we can keep before it turns into something else. As if hastily looking for a piece of paper where to hastily scribble in order not to lose a single detail.”

Text by Boris, 2013; translation by Sofia Silva.