Photography Exhibition
ALSUL
September 14th to October 16th, 2009, Centre for Social Studies
Presentation |
In the dichotomic game that opposes the cardinal points, the South is
located in the exact opposite side to the North, consequently, from
where we find ourselves, turning our back to the North, we encounter a
land suffering from the severity of time and the prepotency of men, a
land of vitality and encouragement, that even though swaying to the
overwhelming strength of the conquerors, has allowed all every invasion
and violations and, without walls nor battlements, has remained
unviolated in its secrets and mysticisms. The South is the unhealed
wound in the North’s conscience. In an exhausted world, this is the
land of the infinite dream that maintains the promises of a new
paradigm in which knowledge does not mean domination and exploitation
and where sweat, salt, samba, salsa, smiles and the Sun are the
ingredients with which a new emancipation is seasoned. In the emotional
contemporary geography, the South is no longer a cardinal point, and,
more important than not losing the North is finding the South. In this
game of metaphors, the photographs exhibited are the images that move
us, and nothing moves us more than Al South.
Biographic notes | Carlos Nolasco was born in Serpa, lives in Coimbra, teaches Social Sciences and is a CES doctoral student. Khalid Fekhari was born in Marrakesh, lives in Aveiro and obtained his PhD in Anthropology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Both of them, during December, 2005, held an exhibition at the IPJ in Viseu, intituled Acasos. In July, 2007, at Café de Santa Cruz, in Coimbra, they held their second exhibition intituled Marraquexe Simplesmente. In 2008, they held their third exhibition, at Café de Santa Cruz and the Piaget Institute, intituled Pequenos Mamiferos. Some of their works may be seen at www.alsul.org.