
Depois
- Publisher
- Pierre von Kleist editions
- Year
- 2016
- ISBN
- 978-972-776-479-2
- Specifications
- Softcover
21 × 28 cm
108 pages
52 colour and black and white plates
Texts by Sérgio Mah and António Guerreiro
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Depois, MNAC – Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, 7 May - 26 September 2016
Depois gathers a series of recent photographs by André Cepeda taken in Porto, the city where the artist lives and a recurrent subject of his work. The collection suggests a physical — and mental — journey through various sites in a city where human presence is residual. Nothing appears to happen in these places. Along the way Cepeda photographs deserted streets, the facades of buildings, rudimentary constructions, monuments, ruins and abandoned materials and objects in settings permeated by melancholy and a sense of emptiness. It is a view that is harsh and sensitive, meditative and critical, reacting to space, matter and light, bestowing on certain places and objects a character at once familiar and strange, banal and mysterious. Depois is a work about what remains, but also about our desires and about what we are prepared to see in and make of the pictures.