Portuguese artist based in Portsmouth, UK.
Untitled (work in progress)
Landscape no. 1
We’re Trapped in The Belly of This Horrible Machine
Plato’s Post-Modern Cave
About
Portuguese artist based in Portsmouth, UK.
Untitled (work in progress)
Landscape no. 1
We’re Trapped in The Belly of This Horrible Machine
Plato’s Post-Modern Cave
About
I have kept these images singularly archived as individual pieces of interest. Photographs that I picked out from a negative with the rest of its narrative. These stood out as needles piercing through my memory.
I struggled to find words to describe these. Talking to friends and colleagues about what I was doing did not allow me to get into specific terms - not that I could. Instead, I was limited by the translation of poetry.
I cannot explain a term that my grandparents used to say in my small village. But I can give a sense of it to someone - after a long, unnecessary, excruciating explanation. How can anyone but me know how my grandmother used to pick up the flowers, peel potatoes and flick through pages?
There is no fair way to grasp what I am looking at. It is an amplified photograph. It is in a way what makes a photograph itself.
Perhaps this is about loss, about thoughts and encounters. About hunting, finding, rummaging and discarding. Maybe it touches on longing. But there is more to consider. There is something else in these.
Not all of them will have the same effect on everyone - that is simply true.
But they all act in a self-referencing way.
You and I, looking at photographs.
We’re Trapped in the Belly of This Horrible Machine addresses the manufactured landscape as a space for abstract personal narratives and underlying existential contemplation within destruction.
When one encounters itself unrestricted in a quarry, a connection between the person and the land is formed.
Through the fusion of digital and analogue photographic methods, along with the use of distinct installation techniques, this project aims to replicate the phenomenology of the space and the connection formed. The Quarry here is scrutinized in a document of an entropic future - the future after the Anthropocene
On the perception of reality in a postmodern world dominated by media and technology and our relationship with it as human beings. It aims to question the imaginary division between real and fake and how we create such division within our perception of our surroundings.
Contact
@tiago.valeiro
tiagovaleirophoto@gmail.com
Education
BA Photography, University of Portsmouth, 2023
Awards
Metro Imaging Mentorship Award, 2023
ADP One to Watch Award, 2023
Exhibitions
UoP Photo Fringe Showcase
Group Exhibition. Eldon Building, Portsmouth, 2024
Corrente de Ar Vol. IV
Group Exhibition. Beato Innovation District, Lisbon, 2024
Fractals Collective
Free Range Graduates Show. Truman Brewery, London, 2023
Work In Progress
Group Exhibition. Imagination Refinery, Gosport, 2023
Fractals CollectiveGraduates Degree Show. Eldon Building, Portsmouth, 2023
In/different Spaces Group Exhibition. Cascades, Portsmouth, 2022
Workshops
Pompey Darkroom Text, Photography and Narrative. Aspex, Portsmouth, 2024