João Paulo Aça
ASIN: B007VR4MEK
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 23
The photographs presented here*, show works in dialogue originated from diverse periods and different sources (comics, cinema and painting)- any work is not totally “finished” and can acquire new meanings when is put under new conditions. Each work that participates in this dialogue is treated like an actor in a scene of a film with other works - the photographs were conceived as moments for thirty different histories.These photographs have two main influences: “A Biblioteca [The Library]” of José Luís Borges and “A última obra-prima de Aaron Slobodj [The Last Masterpiece of Aaron Slobodj]**” of José Carlos Fernandes.The text of José Luís Borges presents an immense library with all the books already written as well as the never written. In this sense, this library contains, not only Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”, but also infinite variations of the same work. From the point of view ...