Technical specifications WeAreStillHere,2026
Single-channelvideoinstallation,[blackandwhite],6min12sec,[variabledimensions]
Credits: Concept, cinematography, editing and monologue text: André Cordeiro
To inhabit a place is also to coexist with what remains within it without fully revealing itself.
Drawing on Jacques Derrida’s notion of spectrality, these presences continue to address the present precisely because they belong to the past, thus suspending the boundary between the current moment and absence.
To inhabit is to assert a right, so that the city does not become a spectre and, in doing so, lose the bodies, relationships and gestures that give it meaning. It is to refuse to let the memory of those who built it become all that remains of their presence. Between staying and being forced to leave, the home becomes a site of struggle, not only over the space it occupies, but over the possibility of continuing to exist within it.
