“Petit Histoires” is made of a series of 50 photographs presented on print paper and slideshow (using Windows Movie Maker). It inteds to reduce image to its essencial form. Leading the photograph to another sphere, probably less important than the plot and bringing to light the imaginary as a product of reality.

While we let ourselves been envolved by the snapshots, we dive into the script without claiming for conclusion. The short scenes displayed in sequence suggest private and daily stories, moving back and forth from real to ficcional. They invite us to create a story or, who knows, multiple stories through the titles of each movement.

This creative possibility given to the spectator is endowed by an everlasting atmosphere, once it would be recreated several times either by philosophical ideas around photographic representation of real or by the interaction with the short scenes.

The slide show representation is related with the cinematographic language and suggests a pre-established rhythm organized as a continuous movement made by other movements.

On the other hand, printed images, despite their static form, assume a dynamic aspect as they dialogue with a comic strip framework they give the spectator the freedom to choose his own reading rhythm even if the scenes don´t have a closure.

Vitória,02/15/2008

Critical essay about “Petites Histoire”

“Petit Histoires” is made of a series of 50 photographs presented on print paper and slideshow (using Windows Movie Maker). It inteds to reduce image to its essencial form. Leading the photograph to another sphere, probably less important than the plot and bringing to light the imaginary as a product of reality.

While we let ourselves been envolved by the snapshots, we dive into the script without claiming for conclusion. The short scenes displayed in sequence suggest private and daily stories, moving back and forth from real to ficcional. They invite us to create a story or, who knows, multiple stories through the titles of each movement.

This creative possibility given to the spectator is endowed by an everlasting atmosphere, once it would be recreated several times either by philosophical ideas around photographic representation of real or by the interaction with the short scenes.

The slide show representation is related with the cinematographic language and suggests a pre-established rhythm organized as a continuous movement made by other movements.

On the other hand, printed images, despite their static form, assume a dynamic aspect as they dialogue with a comic strip framework they give the spectator the freedom to choose his own reading rhythm even if the scenes don´t have a closure.

Vitória,02/15/2008

Critical essay about “Petites Histoire”

“Petit Histoires” is made of a series of 50 photographs presented on print paper and slideshow (using Windows Movie Maker). It inteds to reduce image to its essencial form. Leading the photograph to another sphere, probably less important than the plot and bringing to light the imaginary as a product of reality.

While we let ourselves been envolved by the snapshots, we dive into the script without claiming for conclusion. The short scenes displayed in sequence suggest private and daily stories, moving back and forth from real to ficcional. They invite us to create a story or, who knows, multiple stories through the titles of each movement.

This creative possibility given to the spectator is endowed by an everlasting atmosphere, once it would be recreated several times either by philosophical ideas around photographic representation of real or by the interaction with the short scenes.

The slide show representation is related with the cinematographic language and suggests a pre-established rhythm organized as a continuous movement made by other movements.

On the other hand, printed images, despite their static form, assume a dynamic aspect as they dialogue with a comic strip framework they give the spectator the freedom to choose his own reading rhythm even if the scenes don´t have a closure.

Vitória,02/15/2008

Memorial descritivo de “Petites Histoire”

“Petites Histoire” é composta por uma série de 50 fotografias e apresentadas sobre papel fotográfico e slide show (usando o Windows Movie Maker). Intende reduzir a imagem a sua essência até que não haja mais a imagem fotográfica em si, até que a narrativa trace um enredo de fatos e revele o imaginário como produto do real.

Ao deixar-se envolver pelas “pequenas histórias”, mergulhamos num roteiro sem pretensões de concluir-se. Os “snapshots” ou cenas curtas, dispostos em sequência, sugerem histórias particularese cotidianas que oscilam entre as imagens do real e do ficcional. Nos convidam, através dos títulos de cada movimento, à criação d uma história ou, quem sabe, de várias histórias.

Essa possibilidade criativa à que se pode permitir o o observador é dotada de uma atmosfera perene, uma vez que contém o poder de se recriar infinitamente seja por fruição filosófica acerca da representação fotográfica, seja pela interação do espectador com as pequenass narrativas imaginárias.

A apresentação em slide show estabelece uma relação com a imagem fotográfica e propõe um ritmo de leitura pré-estabelecido por um movimento contínuo composto por outros movimentos ou histórias.

Já a apresentação em papel fotográfico, apesar de estática, assume um caráter dinâmico na medida em que dialoga com a forma estrutural dos quadrinhos e concede aos espectador a liberdade de estabelecer tempos de leitura variados sem, contudo, finalizar as cenas.

Vitória, 15/02/2008