English version of the text from last post:
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Small spatial fantasies from Ribeira
Small fantasies shaped into Ribeira’s mental diagram.
More than documenting Ribeira and portray its scenarios or its quirks, the composition aims at proposing a fresh look on the spaces lived daily. A legacy is evoked – one of alleys made rivers flowing to the Douro, of heavy buildings clustering on the hills that compose the borough.
One of the fantasies gathers the volumes the inhabitants occupy, testimonies of the city’s crossroads and divergences, of time passing by. Hence, a castle of coloured blocks and familiar textures is built – the stage for lives being lived everyday.
In the other, the gaps fuse into one, creating spaces where you and me walk along, just like the way we perceive them when we choose to see life in a different way. A labyrinth that allows for a different story, filled with secrets, revealing its true shape in full clarity.
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