traditional trends — retratos de uma família is the name that Inês Trindade, João Ferreira
and Kenza Lopes gave to
the collective formed by the three of them to create a photographic work with the same name.
«The family of each one is something very personal, but in this invented family, we take the intimacy of Portuguese families to a more global level.»
traditional trends — retratos de uma família consists of a photographic series that is nothing more than the (re)mixing of images from the family archives of each one, to which new imagery readings were given either by photographic recreation or by the addition of
visual and tactile elements, through techniques such as drawing, painting,
collage or even embroidery.
«Thus, color,
shape, line, the overlapping of layers and some kitsch and camp elements are combined in this project, showing that past traditions are still present, with changes that may have occurred, but, nonetheless,
that have diversified and made them new.»
traditional trends — retratos de uma família is a closer look at the individual and the collective memory, which plays
here the object of a (re)enactment and, hence, of recreation.