Blue Mud Swamp       Filipe Casaca

Blue Mud Swamp by Filipe Casaca
Pente 10 Gallery & Filipe Casaca, 2012

31,4×23,7cm
56 p. + 8 p. (26 Color Images)
Velvetbound Hardcover
Booklet with text by Mingyu Wu
Normal Edition – 270 Copies (SIGNED)
Special Edition – 30 Copies (SIGNED) with Print (20x30cm Inkjet Print)

‘Come and see’
And I looked, and behold the pale horse,
and he that sat on him was dead.

The shoreline, hot and humid, is a postcard that attracts and invites Men to settle where the land meets the Yellow Sea. However, the reality is dissonant. Although surrounded by natural beauty, beaches and entertainment facilities, the city and its urban spaces transmits, as a whole, a feeling of artificiality. In some cases the abundance created a certain degradation and abandonment. With a splendor that takes us back to a recent past, a certain melancholy is present, as happens with all that was new, colorful and perfect but perished with time. Dalian; China.

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a minha casa é onde estás | Filipe Casaca

my home is where you are (a minha casa é onde estás) by Filipe Casaca

 

Selfpublished,  2011

31x24cm
40p. ; 15 Black & White Images
300 Copies Signed
Clothbound Hardcover and Silver Stamping
Portuguese and English

This series reflects about intimacy. It is a broad portrait with a domestic atmosphere about my wife Teresa, and our private life in a place shared between the two of us. These images are a performance of Teresa by my mind’s eye. Her body has always been very important to me, the way she moves and the movements that she might not even be aware of. There are unconscious, natural poses… That doesn’t mean they’re the result of habit, but the body itself is aware and reacts naturally.

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