no. 23 Editorial
Moodboard

ISSN · 2183-5527

Visual Essay + Author in residence

7 Portraits

7 Portraits

João Fonte Santa

VHS, 29' By João Fonte Santa, assisted by António Caramelo The video Sete Retratos was created for the exhibition Mundo de Aventuras, curated by José Alberto Ferreira, and features 7 video portraits, …

7 Portraits

B, Y, R

Visual Essay

B, Y, R

Henrique Biatto

Água Viva

Visual Essay

Água Viva

Lander Patrick, Gonçalo Marques, José Soares

Through the longest path

Visual Essay

Through the longest path

Margarida Rodrigues (MAR)

Working with mountains is easy

Article

Working with mountains is easy

Isadora Alves

Process Of Unframability

Sound Essay

Process Of Unframability

Frantz Loriot

Drowned, in the shame of light

Visual Essay

Drowned, in the shame of light

Isabela Abate & João Castro

Workbook on the adaptation of the play The Man Outside (1947)

Visual Essay

Workbook on the adaptation of the play The Man Outside (1947)

Pedro Paiva

Sightings

Visual Essay

Sightings

Francisco Novais

HALF A STEP FROM HOME

Visual Essay

HALF A STEP FROM HOME

António Olaio

Misfits

Visual Essay

Misfits

Fabrizio Matos

Out Of Here

Sound Essay

Out Of Here

Quatroconnection (Carla Santana)

Weiße Rose

Visual Essay + Author in residence

Weiße Rose

João Fonte Santa

it was just drained, drained

Sound Essay

it was just drained, drained

André Hencleeday

Lavagem

Visual Essay

Lavagem

João Jacinto

XXX

Visual Essay + Author in residence

XXX

João Fonte Santa

The hand with no specialty

Visual Essay

The hand with no specialty

Carolina Lino

Wrong Wrong n.23

Misfits

Article 01.04.2016

Small stories from Madrid

Duarte Amaral Netto

#1 - FLORA HUAYAQUILENSIS

The Shadows of Flora Huayaquilensis

Between 1783 and 1808 a very large expedition led by José Celestino Mutis was undertaken in what is now Colombia and other areas of adjacent countries. It was known as the Real Expedición Botánica del Nuevo Reino de Granada and other smaller expeditions were born.

Juan José Tafalla Navascués was a botanist and member of the Ruiz and Pavon, authors of the three volumes of Flora Peruviana et Chilensis, and remained in that area between 1799 and 1808 for his investigation. The work he produced is stored in the archives of the botanical garden of Madrid and is known as Flora Huayaquilensis.

Dr. Edgardo Estrella (born in 1944 in Ecuador), took a sabbatical year from the Universidad Central de Equador in 1985 and went to Madrid where he did a research at the archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens. There he found documents regarding the expedition of Ruiz and Pavon and the work of Navascués.

Dr. Estrella spent three years studying and compiling the archive information from Navascués before publishing it in a book. During that period he, a committed amateur photographer, did several photo essays of the Botanical Garden and its plants like the one shown here, produced around 1986. His approach centers the attention mainly on the shape of the shadows instead of the plants itself, something he was very interested in exploring as it opened an aesthetical freedom opposed to the rigor of his practice.

I met Dr. Estrella’s middle son, Ricardo, in Madrid June of 2015. We had a common friend that introduced us for me to get to know and try to publish his father’s work. Among his essays this one is the most compelling and well developed, showing a more mature approach and vision in photography practice.

Michelangelo Pistoletto: Time Rooms

Cristina Terzoni

What do «Fakes» have to tell us