Essay on Flight and Apnea

Maria Oliveira

20 sep – 30 oct 2024
Casa Rolão/Centésima Página

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ESSAY ON FLIGHT AND APNEA

The geometry of a body facing eternity is hard to imagine. The shape it will draw on the ground, the volume it will occupy on the flat horizon, at that latitude.

And there are certain words we understand: fever, hiccup, haemorrhage.

In what colour will the days end? And, if the wounds heal better in the dark, at what depth?

In the balance between distance and waiting, everything is polished by time, clear and clean, only slightly coarsened by the natural firmness of love.

Take a rest, the birds still remember us in the silence of their migrations.

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Braga was my first home, the place where my paths crossed with photography, freedom and poetry. In thirteen years of life, Braga has been an encounter and a discovery.

For ESSAY ON FLIGHT AND APNEA (Ensaio em Voo e Apneia) I return to a particular moment which, being so profound, is no longer a memory: it is flesh and breath.

In brutality and astonishment, life reveals itself, once again, without possibility or rehearsal.

Casa Rolão/Centésima Página
Av. Central 118, 4710-229 Braga

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