Imaginary Beings – Gold
Previous Next Imaginary Beings – Gold Intervention and gold leaf (22K) on inkjet print.15 x 22,4 cm. 2022 Adopting part of the title from Jorge Luis Borges’ The book of imaginary beings, Seres imaginários, by Carla Cabanas (1979, Lisbon), is an exhibition-installation that opens the doors, on the one hand, to the private world of […]
I Don’t Trust Myself When I’m Sleeping II
Previous Next I Don’t Trust Myself When I’m Sleeping II Intervention and gold leaf (22K) on color photographs; variable dimensions. 2018 – 2020 The project “I don’t trust myself when I’m sleeping”, currently with two parts, gives continuity to the artist’s enquiries about the places of memory and photography in the construction of identity narratives.The […]
I Don’t Trust Myself When I’m Sleeping
Previous Next I Don’t Trust Myself When I’m Sleeping Ink on glass, light installation, photographic album, color photographs; variable dimensions. 2018 – 2019 The project “I don’t trust myself when I’m sleeping”, currently with two parts, gives continuity to the artist’s enquiries about the places of memory and photography in the construction of identity narratives.The […]
What remains of what it was – Album Martim Moniz
Previous Next What remains of what it was – Album Martim Moniz Intervention on Inkjet print, 40×40 cm. sound installation, vinyl drawing on the wall 2012-2014 In December 2012 I participated in an artistic residency in Lisbon, organized by the association XEREM in partnership with Triangle Network and the Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa – Fotográfico […]
What remains of what it was – Album FMF
Previous Next What remains of what it was – Album Francisco Manuel Fialho Intervention on inkjet print, 40x72cm. 2016 (…) I was first interested in the quality and historic value of these images, but then I got caught up in this narrative and its emptiness: an abstract image opening up like a mirror, leaving enough […]
Archived Word
Previous Next What remains of what it was – Archived Word Intervention on inkjet print, acrylic and wood.Variable measures. 2014 PALAVRA ARQUIVADA /archived word developed from a set of early 20th century postcards belonging to Carla Cabanas’ own private collection, and some others belonging to Eduardo Portugal’s – collection of Lisbon City Archive – Photography. […]
What remains of what it was – Album Desconhecido
Previous Next What remains of what it was – Album Unknown Intervention on inkjet print. 110x90cm, 110x110cm. 2012 “(…) In “O que ficou do que foi” (“What remains of what once was –Cabanas Álbum), the artist invokes memory imprecision through erasing, scratching, and fading away of images belonging to her closest surrounding: family. The photographic […]
What remains of what it was – Archived Album
Previous Next What remains of what it was – Archived Album (AML) – A family in a garden Intervention on inkjet print. 99×131 cm. 2012 “(…) In “O que ficou do que foi ” (“What remains of what once was”), the artist invokes memory imprecision through erasing, scratching, and fading away of images belonging to […]
What remains of what it was – Album Cabanas
Previous Next What remains of what it was – Album Cabanas Intervention on silver print gelatin proof. 30×40 cm 2010-2011 “(…) In “O que ficou do que foi” (“What remains of what once was –Cabanas Álbum), the artist invokes memory imprecision through erasing, scratching, and fading away of images belonging to her closest surrounding: family. […]
Memory box
Memory box Inkjet print on cotton paper, headphones, wood, ink on paper. 2009 On the sum and its parts #1.When the memory of a space is summoned to become description, all senses overlap: smells, feelings, distances, objects, people…the memory of a place is the memory of a stage and of the play we have acted […]