Fernando Lemos

The oblique orientation is a form of disturbance. By inclining the composition and the building captured in the image, thus making it unstable or falling down (in a country of frequent earthquakes), the photographer powerfully destabilises the perception, reading and sensations of the observer. On a stone base and with an indistinct light background (sky, some trees, rooftops), the narrow construction (a silo where grains are stored) has the solidity of a small shrine and the interest of a more or less isolated installation. However, with our first glance, we have already yielded to the disquiet of imminent collapse, to the inevitability of a destruction from which the strength of the shape only partially distracts us.

Leonor Nazaré
Curator at the CAM