no. 24 Editorial
Moodboard

ISSN · 2183-5527

Visual Essay

Chiado's animation, 1982

Chiado's animation, 1982

Álvaro Rosendo

Chiado's first animation – Spontaneous Art-Performance in Lisbon May 18th and 19th, 1982 One group of students from the 4th and 5th years of the Painting degree of Escola Superior de Belas Artes de Lisboa (currently, …

Chiado's animation, 1982

Families Are Not Photo Albums

Visual Essay

Families Are Not Photo Albums

Joana Duarte

. the performativity of political acts and artifacts: some examples of what leaks and varies while remaining here

Article

. the performativity of political acts and artifacts: some examples of what leaks and varies while remaining here

Rita Barreira

CORPO MANIFESTAÇÃO – SMALL LEXICON ABOUT THE HISTORY OF PERFORMANCE IN PORTUGAL – Episode 2: PARTICIPATION

Author in residence

CORPO MANIFESTAÇÃO – SMALL LEXICON ABOUT THE HISTORY OF PERFORMANCE IN PORTUGAL – Episode 2: PARTICIPATION

Paula Pinto

dancing words

Visual Essay

dancing words

Catarina Real

On Alan Clarke’s performativity

Article

On Alan Clarke’s performativity

Elisa Pône

Visual Essay

bowed waters

Maria do Mar

bowed waters

ONE MORE TIME – BOWFINGER REVISITED

Visual Essay

ONE MORE TIME – BOWFINGER REVISITED

Isa Toledo & Sara Black McCullough

Author in residence

CORPO MANIFESTAÇÃO – SMALL LEXICON ABOUT THE HISTORY OF PERFORMANCE IN PORTUGAL – Episode 1: PLASTÍCIFES

Paula Pinto

CORPO MANIFESTAÇÃO – SMALL LEXICON ABOUT THE HISTORY OF PERFORMANCE IN PORTUGAL – Episode 1: PLASTÍCIFES

Wrong Wrong n.24

The Performance

Visual Essay 23.02.2025

Families Are Not Photo Albums

Joana Duarte

What does it mean to destroy a photograph?
Not taking photographs of your children when they are young is considered a sign of neglect.
We want to make the most of every moment, every smile, every success.
So why destroy it?
Is destroying a photograph, destroying a memory?
Memory is fallible. Photographs preserve moments that memory cannot.
When the memory is too weak to prove the photograph, is it real?
The photograph doesn’t capture what’s beyond the frame.
The loneliness;
The fear;
The addiction;
The cheating;
The screams;
The lies.
Does erasing a parent’s photo erase the self?
Digital photography has made the process of deleting a photo something inconsequential.
Deleting the photograph as an object is a completely different thing.
A photo may not represent an exact memory in the way it’s presented.
Most photos are staged.
Families are not photo albums.
Albums represent families in the eyes of others.
An album is nothing more than organized fiction.
Woven by hands that tell their own story.
Once upon a time there was a happy family.
A present father.
A mother without depression.
A great childhood.
A good marriage.
A perfect family.
Where knives are used to cut food.
Where alcohol is used to relax
Where words are used to cherish
Where violence doesn’t exist
Once upon a time.

Chiado's animation, 1982

Álvaro Rosendo