Galeria das Salgadeiras presents “Very Typical” by Tiago Casanova, marking his first solo exhibition at the gallery. The show features the photographer’s most recent work, in which he continues to explore the “expanded territories” of photography, presenting an exhibition project that encompasses photography, installation, and performance.

“Very Typical” fits within Tiago Casanova’s ongoing concerns with the identity of territory, the collective memory of a place, and the symbolic character of “things.” It is, in fact, and with all that art, even photographic art, can express of the “real”, an allegory of a Lisbon that, for endemic, political, social, and perhaps above all economic reasons, has been undergoing metamorphosis. In this transformation, tradition, so heavily massified, becomes emptied of meaning, and space for the local experience of the city itself drifts away from its centers, now reserved for tuk-tuk visits.

“Very Typical” reflects a critical attitude of an ironic nature, an act of revolt attempting to suggest some order within chaos, so that Lisbon may continue to be ours, everyone’s, a “young and maidenly” city—as Ana Matos notes in the exhibition text.

Over the years, Tiago Casanova has developed several series within the scope of “Gang do Cobre,” an ongoing project since 2013, in which the artist, through the creation of a fictional character, adopts what he himself defines as a “more critical and anti-system stance.”