Reminiscence + Reminiscence against the timeline.
My approach as a dancer was to combine a variety of practices and artistic passions, such as dance, photography, and video, in order to visually reflect a living art, while retaining an idea of movement and volume, a breath, trying to avoid overlapping images.
This resulted in the idea of using the long exposure on photography for the « trace » – that of a moving body, of fleeting moments which leaves a visible trace in the visual memory and which becomes altered by our own interest in remembering one image rather than an other, in focusing on a detail that leaves a kind of blur on what is left of a presence. Sometimes it let appear a distant appearance, like an opaque memory, a superimposition of images, thus reminding us of what type of metamorphosis time can generate in our visual memory, or in our memory alone.
It therefore pertains to a life experience that is specific to each of us, and which is often a sediment, a subject that each individual reconsiders, reuses, and which also revives the senses in various instances (cognitive medicine), including artistic practices. Wandering was a connecting thread for all the pictures I took. After 10 years my memory foils me and these 11 printed clichés are other witnesses. The liveliness of these moments as for them approach well the famous « saudade ».
I approached this interest in the recording of the body’s movements while completing a study on the body & visual’s memory during an artistic training course (Accompanied Intensive Training Course 2008-2009) at the Centro Em Movimento in Lisbon, topic that I continued afterwards.
Thanks to dancers & performers : Paula Petreca, Paula Carneiro Dias, Issak Erdoiza, Costanza Givone at C.E.M. of Lisbonne, Hsu Hai Wen, Eva Vandest at CCN of Montpellier, Junior Zafialison at Festival of Contemporary Dance of Marrakesh, Luciano Amarelo at an alternative space of Lisbonne.