“The body is only interesting because of its own limitations. We can’t go beyond the body – we are stuck, but our thoughts and mind is as vast as our capacity to extend it. Our bodies are always a confinement of some sort, a border-line between what we conceive in our minds and the exteriorization of our emotions. Albert Camus said “the revolt of the flesh is the absurd,” and by this he meant that the body can be trigger to feeling disembodied. I always felt the body to be a gigantic burden because it seems out of proportion with our minds and emotions which can be monumental. How can we travel so far in our thoughts and have this heavy anchor gripping us to reality.
Throughout the history of art the human form has always been dancing with death in one way or another, that distant region of absurdity and emptiness was the one I chose to evoke in an open dialogue, and that can help reconcile or antagonize the viewer, I think the possibilities are really endless and fascinating.”
–from an interview with Ghost Magazine
Nuno Moreira
Photographer
My photographic work deals largely with the human condition and it’s mostly recognizable for the introspective and enigmatic imagery.
A significant part of my work as an artist and photographer is an exploration on visual perception and a way of photographing thoughts or inner landscapes. These landscapes spring both from an inside perspective, as well as from someone on the outside looking into a particular topic within.
The subject matter is not an essential part of what I wish to express because most of the times it’s serving a universal purpose within the concept of a given series of photos – a narrative, if you will. Therefore the models, bodies or gestures are a natural consequence of the atmosphere they try to evoke.
Since what I’m always looking to express is something from inside, I tend to work with the unknown and with elements that are not (always) visible in the frame.
I believe imagination and curiosity can be transcribed into images in a poetic way, through a language somewhere in-between cinema and literature.
When I look back at some photos I understand the real interest lies outside the frame, that is, outside the image itself. In what is not there.
I believe in the capacity of our minds to use the image as a mere gateway or starting point to then extrapolate beyond the confinements of the medium. Indeed that is what a good image should be able to do: take the viewer somewhere far away from what is real and tangible.
Nuno Moreira
Photographer
My photographic work deals largely with the human condition and it’s mostly recognizable for the introspective and enigmatic imagery.
A significant part of my work as an artist and photographer is an exploration on visual perception and a way of photographing thoughts or inner landscapes. These landscapes spring both from an inside perspective, as well as from someone on the outside looking into a particular topic within.
The subject matter is not an essential part of what I wish to express because most of the times it’s serving a universal purpose within the concept of a given series of photos – a narrative, if you will. Therefore the models, bodies or gestures are a natural consequence of the atmosphere they try to evoke.
Since what I’m always looking to express is something from inside, I tend to work with the unknown and with elements that are not (always) visible in the frame.
I believe imagination and curiosity can be transcribed into images in a poetic way, through a language somewhere in-between cinema and literature.
When I look back at some photos I understand the real interest lies outside the frame, that is, outside the image itself. In what is not there.
I believe in the capacity of our minds to use the image as a mere gateway or starting point to then extrapolate beyond the confinements of the medium. Indeed that is what a good image should be able to do: take the viewer somewhere far away from what is real and tangible.
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“The body is only interesting because of its own limitations. We can’t go beyond the body – we are stuck, but our thoughts and mind is as vast as our capacity to extend it. Our bodies are always a confinement of some sort, a border-line between what we conceive in our minds and the exteriorization of our emotions. Albert Camus said “the revolt of the flesh is the absurd,” and by this he meant that the body can be trigger to feeling disembodied. I always felt the body to be a gigantic burden because it seems out of proportion with our minds and emotions which can be monumental. How can we travel so far in our thoughts and have this heavy anchor gripping us to reality.
Throughout the history of art the human form has always been dancing with death in one way or another, that distant region of absurdity and emptiness was the one I chose to evoke in an open dialogue, and that can help reconcile or antagonize the viewer, I think the possibilities are really endless and fascinating.”
–from an interview with Ghost Magazine
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Trillium Arts / Artist Residencies 2023Various deadlines 2023Inspiration. Immersion. Seclusion. Natural Beauty. Trillium Arts is an artist residency center where artists of many disciplines can find a creative home away from home, offering secluded space for rejuvenation in a beautiful, remote setting in the Blue Ridge Mountains. (more…)
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Ingel Vaiklaartist / filmmakerIngel Vaikla is a visual artist and filmmaker from Estonia. She studied photography in Estonian Academy of Fine Arts (BA) and film in Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Gent (MA). In her work she questions the relationship between architecture and its users, and the representation of architecture in camera based mediums. (more…)
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ICPInternational Center of PhotographyThe International Center of Photography (ICP) is the world’s leading institution dedicated to photography and visual culture. Cornell Capa founded ICP in 1974 to preserve the legacy of “concerned photography” (more…)
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The Laboratory of the FutureMay 20 – Nov 26, 2023The 18th International Architecture Exhibition, titled The Laboratory of the Future, will be open to the public from Saturday May 20 to Sunday November 26, 2023 at the Giardini and the Arsenale, and at Forte Marghera; it will be curated by Lesley Lokko and organised by La Biennale di Venezia. (more…)
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Stranger in the VillageSep 3, 2023 – Jan 7, 2024In his famous text Stranger in the Village, the US-American writer James Baldwin addressed the racism that informed his stay in Switzerland in the 1950s. Baldwin’s words continue to inspire many artists to this day. They hold up a mirror to us as a society and have lost none of their relevance. (more…)
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Grace Weaver / Indoor PaintingsMay 4 – Dec 10, 2023Hetzler Marfa is pleased to announce Indoor Paintings, a solo exhibition of works by Grace Weaver (b. 1989, Vermont) made during a residency in Marfa, Texas. The exhibition includes a presentation of oil on canvas works in the main gallery and Weaver’s largest works on paper to date in the artist studio. (more…)
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Jinjoon Lee: Audible GardenJul 21 – Oct 13, 2023This summer, the Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange (KOFICE) and the Korean Cultural Centre UK (KCCUK) co-present Audible Garden, the solo exhibition of work by new media artist Jinjoon Lee as part of a yearlong celebration of the 140th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Korea and the UK. (more…)
