Vestido tecido de histórias / Storydress

Christine Elfman

"Storydress II is a series of photographs of a life-size paper mache and plaster sculpture. The dress is made of paper mache stories that I recorded of my great-grandmother’s autobiographical reminiscences. Each photograph contains legible words. The sculpture was photographed with the wet-plate collodion negative process, printed on handmade gold-toned Albumen paper, and burnished onto antique Cabinet Card mounts. For exhibition the cabinet card photographs are displayed using an antique wooden Graphoscope (magnifying device) and shelf."

Christine Elfman

Um leitor equilibrado / A balanced reader

A nossa pele e o mundo / Our skin and the world

Takahiro Kimura

“I don’t know where I end and the world begins. My best guess? Skin. It’s the only actual boundary between the body and the world, between a body and any other body. Crush, at its core, is about rupture. The desire to touch, the gesture of touching, becomes dangerous, damaging, after the hand, withheld for so long, finally makes an attempt at contact. Simultaneously, and without pity, the natural world and its physical laws restrict the human form and its capacities. All of us are trapped in our skins and drowning in gravity. Physics is unforgiving. Nature is predatory. We do not walk through a passive landscape.” 

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Richard Siken, In conversation with poet Richard Siken, be prepared to bleed a little.

A leitura pelas pinceladas de Agnolo Bronzino / The act of reading through the art of Agnolo Bronzino

Agnolo Bronzino (1503 – 1572)

Uma citação de Simone de Beauvoir / A quote by Simone de Beauvoir

Daniela Volpari

“A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.”

                                                     Simone de Beauvoir

("Um dia em que não escrevo deixa um sabor a cinzas")

Melody Gardot - "Who Will Comfort Me"

Leio o que me dá na real gana, sem preconceitos / I read what I want, without literary prejudice

"But then anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.”  

Virginia Woolf

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Leitora com medo de mosquitos / Mysterious reader

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Quatro tipos de leitores segundo Coleridge / Four classes of readers (by Coleridge)

Agnolo Bronzino (1503 – 1572)

“Readers may be divided into four classes: 

1. Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 

2. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 

3. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 

4. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also".

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Gosto de pensar que pertenço ao último grupo.

Bela leitora de James Jean/ James Jean beautiful reader

James Jean

Romeu e Julieta: "Toda despedida é dor... tão doce todavia..."

"L’ultimo bacio dato a Giulietta da Romeo" de Francesco Hayez, 1823

"Toda despedida é dor... tão doce todavia, que eu te diria boa noite até que amanhecesse o dia."

William Shakespeare

Leitoras assustadas / Halloween readers

 

Quando se ajoelha a alma? / When is the soul on its knees?

Andrea Gruccia

“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.”

Victor Hugo, Os Miseráveis

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("Certos pensamentos são orações. Há momentos em que, qualquer que seja a atitude do corpo, a alma está ajoelhada")

Leitora-aranha/ Spider-reader

 

Fotografia de Kirsty Mitchell e Lyndon Wade.