Luísa Sequeira presents the development of a research she has been carrying out on memory, archives, archeology and cinema.
When we come across Luísa Sequeira’s work, we are absorbed by “her time”. The images presented by the artist are chosen fragments of different narratives, parts extracted from a whole. In this work, intrinsically linked with cinematographic montage, Luísa seeks to freeze time, “This is the point, essentially located in the isolated frame, where cinema meets static photography, both registering a moment of frozen and thus fossilized time” ( Mulvey, 2006, p. 102)
In this selection, she seeks a spectral look in a meditative dimension, an intimate unfolding of her cinematographic research and her personal memories, built from archives, being a whole work of memory archeology
The decisions made by Luísa go beyond the classic concept of photography, with more contemporary consequences that convey to us the restlessness of being on the frontier between reality and fiction. The artist’s intention is to try to mold time “in its time” from memory, even when it is invented, or belongs to someone else. A politically and aesthetically engaged woman full of convictions who invites the viewer to be more than a mere witness, but rather an accomplice of this poetic and nostalgic crime in her eyes.
