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“Vis-à-Vis” c-print, Cella+Knoll, Lisbon, 60x48”, 20 images, 2013. “Closer, Closer” catalogue, “Another Place” catalogue.

PROXIMITY, liminality and otherness are what we explored in terms of Lisbon architecture for “Close, Closer”. The juxtapositions of spaces folding and flourishing in such close range is striking. Desolation and restoration are occurring simultaneously. Amidst the EU financial crisis these images question how independent one space is from another using reflections as permeable membranes between opposite conditions. “Vis-à-Vis” captures this process literally and aesthetically, recording palimpsests that encourage more than one reading. 

“Belém” documents entropic processes occurring on the fringes. We find aspiration in the fray. As Elizabeth Grosz explains in “Architecture from the Outside” the space in-between is a place where things become unravelled but such action also produces potential for new connections, identities and paths. 

Experimenting with the entwinement of inside and out, one and the other, and their relations within the built environment of Lisbon, we made two camera obscuras in a continuation of the series “Out of Place”. Within two buildings adapted to tourism, a restaurant and a hotel, the outside was projected inside by means of a darkened room and a small hole, A wider perspectiveW and more distant other were revealed.

Working mainly in post-documentary photography, film and with architectural projections, ourW practice is driven by curiosity, longing, and questions of cultural identity Many projects share an attention to the built environment, specifically temporary architecture and ideas about the use of space, found and constructed. Recent projects ask questions about otherness and belonging. All work gravitates towards memory, the in-between and temporaility, whether it is a search for the meaning or location of home or the practice of living in liminality. 

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Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa
“Another Place” - Associated projects
“Close,Closer” - Lisbon Architecture Triennale
Campo de Santa Clara, 142-145, 1100-474 Lisboa, Portugal
Chief Curator: Beatrice Galilee
12-30 September 2013

Close, Closer, the third edition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, examines political, technological, emotional, institutional, and critical forms of global spatial practice... from strategic political or social interventions, cutting edge digital technology to fiction, memory, performance to the role of museums, journals and theorists... the Lisbon Architecture Triennale [is] critical platform for the plurality of contemporary spatial practice. The events and exhibitions ... introduce architecture as a discipline that is not exclusive to professionals or defined only by buildings, but rather as an expanding field with which, amongst others, sociologists, scientists, curators and artists are all dynamically and radically engaging.