“Today I am perplexed, like someone who has thought and found and forgotten.
Today I am divided between the loyalty I owe
to the Tobacco Shop across the street, as something real on the outside,
and the feeling that everything is a dream, as something real on the inside.”
— A Tabacaria, by Fernando Pessoa
“Como coisa real por fora, como coisa real por dentro” is the result of a theoretical and formal investigation by Jordi Burch, begun around two years ago, where he investigates on photography as both language and medium, drawing on the exterior of the image itself and on the photographic act, which here are assumed as creative material. At its core, this is a reflection on photography and its boundaries, on what, by definition, provocation, or practice, is intrinsic to it.
