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1. ATLAS Monumentos
André Romão, Gonçalo Sena and Nuno da Luz

2008 / PT, EN / 9 digital prints / 30×20 cm / 6 numbered copies
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An image is usually a reduction of a multidimensional set of relations (at minimum, a complex one) to a two-dimensional plane. A Monument stems from this same fact. The multiplicity of moments, fragments, debris and accumulation that composes us are assembled and reduced to a unit. Celebration and therefore archival are sides of the same coin – a process of construction and levelling. Monumentum indicates the act or the means of remembering. These three acts - three sets of three photographs each - are not attempts at remembering, but instead processes of prospection. These are future archives, hence of nothing. Don't lead as much as produce a halt.

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.
Robert Smithson






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