Trazendo os restos de volta à vida

Abstract

Inventory of remains; discard file; waste catalog; abandonment collection; fragments deposit; trace collection; dictionary of insignificances: these are some of the terms that could describe this research. They all tell us about beings, things and spaces that we forget to look at in urban daily life. They are materialities of abandonment that establish a layer of the city that passes through it silently. As we face this universe, a multiplicity of times and narratives that consists in a true living archive of the city is revealed. That indicates how we are related to the world, because as we look at these fragments, they also look at us. Through an immersion in spaces filled with abandonment and the construction and maintenance of dialogues with active agents of this web, we can understand that these traces are witnesses of the life that runs around them, and they are also possessors of a life of their own. In a constant exercise of listening to the people, the objects, the spaces and the memories of these remains, a thought that takes place through images and fragments is formed, in an attempt to discover the “who of things”.