2012
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24 Junho na Casa Manuel Teixeira Gomes - Portimão Inauguração da minha exposição de fotografia. Apareçam!
24 June at Casa Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Portimão: there’s the inauguration of my Exhibition - come and take a look!
‘‘ There is a quite close and intimate relation between the people and the amusements, either from the motions or the colors and shapes. Although the lights and sounds scream out loud for excitement, people seem to be absorbed in their own experience, they isolate themselves either in small groups or moving about alone with their thoughts.
The food stands are gathering events full of smells and tastes of other times.
The light of the fair is provided by the amusements themselves, creating a panoply of flickering colors and isolated excitement as each one tries to speak louder than the other. ‘‘
‘‘ Fairs are nomads, they move around week after week visiting all different parts of the country, and because of that, they developed their own culture, their roots are the people that make it all happen.
You can hear the loud speakers competing between themselves throwing humorous lines at the neighbour. The kids, when not working in the amusements, wander around the fair looking at people scooping them out. ‘‘
‘‘ The majority of visitors of these fairs are from a lower social class that come here in search of an ephemeral excitement. Although you can spot some “‘‘high class‘‘” buying the dolce & cabanna, pradda‘s or even the chanell‘s, a side fake brand market that amazingly still eludes inspection.
The youngsters are naturally more attracted to the games and amusements. Here you can spot groups of teenagers trying to stand out among the crowd.
‘‘ I believe that this is a dying event, one that will disappear when a more rigorous legislation eventually comes out and forces them to stop.
This photos portrait the enchantment that these fairs, with their amusements, foods, lights and sounds have on the people that visit them. Fairs are essentially an escape from the ephemeral daily life, from the dullness of a life without stimulus. While the kids like to ride more on the colourful merry-go-round, the grown- ups tend to prefer the one’s that leave their stomach glued to their back.
All is momentary, fugacious and quick. ‘‘
Tiago Rosado
Trabalho documental sobre o ambiente gerado da relação entre pessoas e aparelhos nómadas de diversões das feiras.
A organização espacial do lugar-feira contempla uma previsão da quantidade de visitantes que cada vez mais se revela exagerada. Originando frequentemente a desagregação de uma experiência que se quer coesa a feira transforma-se num conjunto de luminescentes máquinas pontuar o espaço nocturno. É interessante observar como a falta de proximidade origina experiências completamente opostas. Esta terra-de-ninguém que se atravessa entre aparelhos de diversões revela nos seus interstícios marcas de outros usos concorrentes ao espaço no solo. E a fraglidade resultante desta estrutura nómada impregnada de um vazio exposto a céu aberto é abafada com uma parafernália de efeitos sonoros, músicas e comentários alegres verbalizados pelos feirantes a megafone.
Antiga actividade comercial e parte integrante da nossa cultura - quer queiramos quer não - a feira faz parte da nossa memória colectiva e sobrevive graças à enorme capacidade de se reinventar bem como da forte resiliência das pessoas que operam e animam estes luminosos gigantes metálicos.
( Impressões Lambda, papel fotográfico Fujifilm, sobre painél compósito de alumínio)