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Opening on October 15th, the exhibition Camera Lucida by Ramiro
Guerreiro and Thierry Simões, at Quadrum Gallery (Municipal Galleries), in Lisbon.
"Camera
Lucida emerged from a chance encounter in this
very space several years ago. We then realized our common desire to exhibit the
Quadrum gallery with almost nothing inside. We offered and afforded ourselves
the possibility to walk inside the glass box, within the transparencies and
reflections that compose this place. There are minimal gestures. Glass doors
open to the garden and the patio. Functioning as an exception to the regular
rhythm of the gallery structure, a slab is placed between two pillars, on top
of which photographs are displayed. These are documents of a double presence.
Two bodies and reflections move inside and outside the camera. "Images of
one body are reflected on another body, shown in a protuberant body
(exception), and become part of the all-encompassing body (gallery). Visitors
can view the photographs without entering the gallery space. They can cross the
space perpendicularly to its central nave, or gaze from the courtyard through
the gallery towards the garden.
[PAUSE]"
Ramiro Guerreiro and Thierry Simões
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