“Renacer” (“Rebirth”) by Eva Díez, a Galician photographer exhibiting in Portugal for the first time, brings us a series of images of abandoned houses, in a sublime poetics that moves between the nostalgia of abandonment and the mystery of the unknown that invites discovery. Artificial lighting enhances the scenic and theatrical dimension, while at the same time restoring to these places their own meaning: that of existing to be lived in. Light, a symbol of energy and also of truth, invades these ruins, recovers their memories, inhabits these houses, thus granting them another life.

This series received the distinction “Premio Galicia de Fotografía Contemporánea” in 2015, with the jury stating at the time:

“In the images there is an unsettling calm that freezes silence, that recounts the poetic presence of shadows, the quieting of life, the fading of sounds, the agony of stones… Dreamlike images that return the human warmth of home to these decaying remains and invite us to enter those houses to feel the mystery of their visual poetry and, perhaps, to relive what once was.”

The exhibition “Renacer” is presented in partnership with the Festival Outono Fotográfico and has the support of the Instituto Cervantes in Lisbon for its promotion.