This image is another of Lemos’s experiments with canvases or perforated plates through which light passes; however, in this case the experiment is more complex because it is the result of the integration of several planes created from multiple exposures on the same negative.

With a physicality that recalls the light projections of the kinetic sculpture Light-Space Modulator, created by László Moholy-Nagy in 1930, Lemos’s image suggests, in the same way, an idea of movement in a composition that is also given a dynamism by the superimposition of different planes.

This process of using meshes to ‘filter’ reality (as we can see in Maria Emília Azevedo or Fernando de Azevedo, Pilar, Vespeira) with the aim of fragmenting or, in the opposite direction, creating a non-existent reality (as in this image or in Luz Armada [Armoured Light]) is one of the practices used by Lemos in the creation of his own world where the real and the fictional, determination and agitation all coexist.

José Oliveira
2022