Surveys [of Photography and the Territory] Landscape and settlement
Surveys [of Photography and Territory] ∙ Landscape and Settlement
17 october to 14 February
Curated by Nuno Faria
Photography has a dual operational axis, that moves between the document and the discourse. The territory has always been a place for individual and collective enquiry and reflection. Cutting across various disciplines, photography has played a central role in this core mapping task. Starting with an expedition to the Serra da Estrela, organised under the aegis of the Sociedade Martins Sarmento in 1881, Carlos Relvas’ pioneering and less known work covers a considerable portion of Portuguese territory. This exhibition brings together a number of surveys of the territory in which photography (and in some cases film) is particularly relevant – ranging from the continuous survey of Orlando Ribeiro, that had already begun in the 1930s, through the Survey on Popular Architecture, organised in the first half of the 1950s and the collections undertaken by a group of trained ethnologists and led by Jorge Dias, systematised between the 1960s and the early 1980s to more recent surveys, by Duarte Belo (Horizon Portugal, The Taste of the Earth, Portugal, Light and Shadow, etc.) or Álvaro Domingues (The street of the road, Country Life), André Príncipe (Field of flamingos without flamingos) or Daniel Blaufuks (Slightly smaller than Indiana), Nuno Cera and Diogo Seixas Lopes (Cimêncio), among others.
17 october to 14 February
Curated by Nuno Faria
Photography has a dual operational axis, that moves between the document and the discourse. The territory has always been a place for individual and collective enquiry and reflection. Cutting across various disciplines, photography has played a central role in this core mapping task. Starting with an expedition to the Serra da Estrela, organised under the aegis of the Sociedade Martins Sarmento in 1881, Carlos Relvas’ pioneering and less known work covers a considerable portion of Portuguese territory. This exhibition brings together a number of surveys of the territory in which photography (and in some cases film) is particularly relevant – ranging from the continuous survey of Orlando Ribeiro, that had already begun in the 1930s, through the Survey on Popular Architecture, organised in the first half of the 1950s and the collections undertaken by a group of trained ethnologists and led by Jorge Dias, systematised between the 1960s and the early 1980s to more recent surveys, by Duarte Belo (Horizon Portugal, The Taste of the Earth, Portugal, Light and Shadow, etc.) or Álvaro Domingues (The street of the road, Country Life), André Príncipe (Field of flamingos without flamingos) or Daniel Blaufuks (Slightly smaller than Indiana), Nuno Cera and Diogo Seixas Lopes (Cimêncio), among others.
