Opening: 16 APR 17h00
Centro Cultural de Lagos
16 > 19 APR 14h30 > 19h00
Armazém Regimental de Lagos
Multimedia Installation / 10' Loop / M16
Free Admittance
This is a self-portrait, in search of an identity. A way of expressing myself visually, looking for answers, questioning, showing my fears and uncertainties. Sometimes I feel like I’ve lost myself, that I’m hiding parts that I don’t fully understand, unknown, not knowing how to show them. Layers and layers of bottled up feelings make me feel lost. I used to know myself. It’s strange how reflections change; I no longer recognise myself. I’m on a journey to rediscover what makes me who I am…
Hiding and self-knowing are challenging processes. To the point where the self becomes an enigmatic code that cannot be deciphered in broad daylight. Layered feelings and experiences, un-seen and un-heard, generate disorientation, as if the past, and one’s own essence, had been stored away for continuity and status. What was once familiar is now uncanny, and this path is now a discovery. A search to show and understand the core elements of a possible truth, one of the many identities we carry.
This is an attempt at a self-portrait.
João Catarino is a photographer, film-maker, artist, designer and curator, with a degree in Photography and Post-Production from Atelier de Imagem, and in Oil Painting from Nextart (2011).
As a photographer and videographer, he has been collaborating with several artists and developing artwork for music records. He was the graphic director for Companhia João Garcia Miguel and Teatro Ibérico, in projects such as I Explode You Make Boom (music video), La Negra (album cover), and a documentary in Angola. He has collaborated on projects such as Ventania Festival, Encode (Simão Costa and Yola Pinto), Neon80 (Be Dias, CCB), and worked on pieces such as DarkTraces (Serralves Museum) and SAPO (André de Campos), among others. He collaborated with Daniel Matos on A Pedra, A Mágoa and co-created Crying Cycle (Pedra Dura Festival). He was also part of the creative team for O Meu Corpo Não É Uma Instância (Yola Pinto and Simão Costa) and directed the videoalbum LUZ (Marco Martins / Makina de Cena).
