Salgadeiras Arte Contemporary presents, in Photo London 2024, the curatorial project «Skin: memory and impression» with art works from Augusto Brázio, Cláudio Garrudo and Inês d’Orey, three portuguese contemporary photographers, that, in a very poetic and widely approaches, explore the subject of skin as an “impression” and also as a place of memory.

The skin as boundary between what to show and what to conceal as in Augusto Brázio’s images. He’s presenting “BANG” series, a black and white record where the implicit and the explicit are crossed, and stories of people and places are built in paradoxical tension, sometimes revealing and sometimes hiding the outcome of what is believed to be told.

The skin as metaphor for revealing time as in Cláudio Garrudo’s “Sarkis” series. He’s presenting the reverse of the model drawings, worked by time, where some fluids and pigments seeped through the sheet of paper at different speeds. Like in any photographic process, time reveals other objects, the verses becoming fronts, and these transformed into reverses.

The skin as a memory of a territory as in Inês d’Orey’s light boxes. There is a kind of suspension of time in a mutating place, repository of a “patina” that seems to crystallize that moment of temporary absence of human presence. We glimpse, therefore, that these are inhabited places, or rather, lived, trodden, in a time that is reset, setting history in motion. — Ana Matos in Exhibition text