JOÃO PEDRO LIMA: CONTRANATURA
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Contranatura is a series of photographs
that were made using the process of re-photographing my own archive. The
photos were taken when I was isolated in
the mountains located in Serra da Cantareira, the north of São Paulo, in 2019-2020. I
put the black box of negatives on my table
and selected randomly which one to scan.
With a HDMI cable I put those images on
my TV screen and rephotographed them
with a broken camera and expired film. I
developed these new negatives with expired chemicals, creating noises and new
possibilities of images. I was so terrified
of the idea of deathconsciousness that I
stopped living to take photographs and
became a useless piece of body. Because
of that, I open this black box - the Pandora’s box in a metaphorical way - of negatives and dive into a new world, the world
of ghosts and spectres. I saw glimpses of
beauty in a small object, in the dust we leave behind - not only the phantasmagoric
person, but the forest itself, like a hauntology tale.
Contranatura is the result of this archival research, on the materiality of dreams
and on the fears of floating in a space called by imaginary beings of the arboreal
environment.
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João Pedro Lima lives in São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil.
João Pedro Lima lives in São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil.