landscape memory
«It is in the narrow and immeasurable space of ideas that the fruit of vision fits: the images that we apprehend of the world and the images that we create within ourselves through imagination and dreams. In this way, our vision is always contaminated by the images that we drink in the past, whether lived or thought».
memory landscape is the photographic materialization of what seem to be interstitial moments between memory and dream. As if, from each of the imagetic cuts made
in the world, emanated foreign, impersonal, unknown stories, which, for that very reason, summon something singular and, at the same time, common (among us).
Francisca Sousa Soares presents us with a visual essay not on the gaze, but on the very act of seeing through photographs, as «a partial exercise overshadowed by the ghosts of memory». Questioning in this photographic medium what is left to the eye to look at and, also, challenging us to an undecidability between real and imaginary.
memory landscape
unfolds into a horizon of projections and a stage
of lived experience. Proposing to the one who looks, by approaching and moving away, to immerse oneself in a self-fiction, in a narrative that is already different and still so intimate, that it makes its future evocation almost palpable.
