Isabel Cordovil travelled to Marseille.
Lisbon’s second artist, André Cepeda, travelled to Dublin
Artist’s Statement
as usual I don’t know where I am going, I have a small idea of places that interest me, and images I want to do, I remain free to decide and improvise when I am shooting. loosing myself during the day or night. The thing is that it’s so important to loose yourself. it’s an hard way dealing with your feelings and trying to understand what you want and what is this all about this is many times the question Walking alone in the city with a camera. Photography Is a way of surviving for me. Poetry. Again and again. Its about poetry. freedom. Its about me. it’s about us it’s about living it’s about seeing and feeling and being part of all this and it’s about resistance I’m not looking for normal images, or photographing what I already know I’m looking for that images and moment I have never lived, and I can learn with. I want to learn reading the everyday life, photography for me is this contact with the unknown. A state of mind. and it’s hard. It’s difficult. it’s magical I’m not looking for the normal, and easy and I’m not looking for showing a specific part of the history or documenting something specific. Poetry. music. sounds. colours. shapes. forms. lines. abstractions. and real things, people, people with real problems, existential problems, human condition. Existentialism we have always to fight We have the power to change. By resisting not forgetting the important things life give us. We shouldn’t be afraid and always think by our own reflecting what we think and feel, now it’s about us.
Artist’s Biography
Isabel Cordovil (Lisbon, 1994) studied Multimedia Art at Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa and completed a MFA at the Haut Ecole d’Art et Design Genève, Switzerland. Among her solo exhibitions the following stand out: THE SUNLIGHT WILL BREAK THE PARTY, Rua das Gaivotas (2022), 28 DAY RAVE NATURE IS HEALING, Al-vista gallery, Zurich, Switzerland (2021); LIKE WATER IN WATER, AEGEUS, Lisbon (2020); CRYING ON THE TELEPHONE, Open Studio (2020), Lisbon; UNTITLED (A TALE OF TWO BODIES), OKO, Geneva, Switzerland (2019). Among the group exhibitions in which she has participated the following stand out: DIP ME IN THE RIVER, DROP ME IN THE WATER, Galeria Pedro Cera (2021); CHAIN REACTION, Culturgest (2021); GRAN TOUR, HEAD Geneva (2019).
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Visual Gesture
Each artist on the residency programme was asked to create a simple visual gesture for potential inclusion in the ULYSSES European Odyssey book. An image that reflected their visit to another partner city, a moment which stayed with them, something quite simple, even symbolic.
All images are copyright of the individual artists.
