Wrong Note

These are photographs of fragments of paper. Clippings of documents and books placed on archives or shelves. Invisible. Inaccessible without precise instructions. They are also visible marks, sometimes painful or happy, that recall different times, of their authors and of those who later saw them again, bringing them to other contexts. This theft implies, without ignoring their history, seeing them as ours, looking back at them through whoever photographed them. Who touched them, photographed them and now sees them. Fragments that do not need to be returned in full. Rather memories, dreams, photographed spaces that remind us that there is no totality, but as a mirage in ourselves. This does not limit its strength, meaning and subjectivity. After all, its, say, somewhat phantasmatic photographic image, intends, first of all, to leave everything open to us. To leave us the availability.

"Wrong Note" was taken from Miles Davis: “It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.”

Pages 14-15 from the programme of the "Museu da Cidade do Porto", Fev-Mar, 2020, with photografy of Carlos Relvas, Árvore (Cedro) / Tree (Cesar), c. 1875, Collection Casa Estúdio Carlos Relvas. Books and other documents from of the architect Raul Lino, typographic proofs of "Folha de Arte" by Afonso Lopes Vieira and illustrated letter by Afonso Lopes Vieira (1915), kept at the Raul Lino Family Archive, 2008-2009. Photografy from L’Art Vivant, Revue Mensuelle de l’Art, des Elegances et du Tourisme – Au Portugal, 1934. "Wrong Note" was taken from miles davis: “It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.

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