
Fábrica
- Publisher
- Pierre von Kleist editions / Guimarães 2012
- Year
- 2012
- ISBN
- 978-989-97763-2-6
- Specifications
- Hardcover with dust jacket
20.5 × 25.5 cm
172 pages
Colour and black and white
Includes a DVD with the film Fábrica by Daniel Blaufuks
Includes a booklet with texts by Daniel Blaufuks and Eduardo Brito, in Portuguese and English
With pictures by Domingos Alvão
"One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell." (W. H. Auden) Fábrica is a collection of pictures composed into an expanded scenery of memory, a walk through the abandoned spaces of one of the largest factories in Europe, in a once flourishing industrial region that never recovered from the loss of the textile market to Chinese exports. Blaufuks worked the volume and the film that comes with it as a documental piece, collecting different kinds of memories, crossing old photographs, manuscripts and objects with views of the present state of the building interiors and surroundings. The result is a reflection not only on the idea of a factory in itself, most generic and abstract, but also on forgetting and abandonment, a memento about labour and the disappearance of the working class in Europe over the last century.