Margem Sul by Luís Aniceto
Margem Sul is about my home town territory on the south bank of the Tagus river, just in front of Lisbon. Unlike the capital city, where its political and economic prominence is also built upon its symbolic space, the territories on the south bank lack this sovereign, historical and self-referential value in their urbanity. Suburbs were the most used adjective that pointed to a sub-value of its patrimonial reference.
It was this set of places, common in their status but differentiated in their morphology, a-historical and outside the spaces of power and desire, with which I felt affinity and attraction. Places where constructions, made at the taste of the times, heterogeneous, dispersed and diversified, generated in the landscape a strange hybridity, in everything far from the aseptic and rational standardization. Spaces in which the anonymous and indifferent buildings reign by the vulgar omnipresence of its facades and where cars, victims of accident and abandonment, pose mute as useless statuary. But also places that, between the pavement, the asphalt and the beaten path, have not yet been or are no longer, that seem suspended, unfinished and therefore renewedly liberating.
Margem Sul is a project developed over the years, in which I decided to concentrate my work in the search for an imaginary landscape. An imaginary, where the dryness of the soil is paired with the roughness of the facades and objects, in which the constant aggression of sunlight reflects the visible wear and tear of time and transformation. It is in this open field, under an endless blue sky where matter is cut into the void, that I roam through the territory and find a suspension of everyday life in which only my presence seems to inhabit.
Bio
Luís Aniceto is a Portuguese photographer and educator currently working between Italy and Portugal. After working in Lisbon as a photo reporter for daily newspapers, he moved to Italy to join the collective of photographers Cesura, where he also had the opportunity to work with Alex Majoli. He co-founded ZONA Magazine, a photographic publication born from the interest in thinking and observing the territory of his hometown. He taught at the Portuguese Institute of Photography, where he was also responsible for the cultural program.
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