R/C Direito, Nº9

A house emptying itself. Packing memories into cardboard boxes. Leaving silences where different sounds once dwelt. What do we choose to bring from the places that hold part of our childhood, like our grandparents' house?

In 2015, my family and I, like everyone else, one day went through this natural process. My process, the invisible one, the one that only lives on the inside, was lessened or the pain faded because I took my camera with me. The act of photographing, even without creating staged shots or making very thoughtful framings, made me find visual poetry in place of pain or melancholy and accept the process. This exhibition, like the film, the short documentary "The Window," which I made in 2019, are ways of slightly opening the door that was closed there in 2015, and sharing it with the outside world. For we are all mirrors of one another.

Patrícia Sobreiro (1975, Lisbon)

Lives and works in Torres Vedras. Her professional life is divided between Painting, Cinema and Art Education, where she has worked as a mediator and creator of different activities, projects and workshops in various public and private institutions for diverse audiences. She has been part of the educational service team at the Torres Vedras Municipal Gallery since 2003.

She holds a degree in Fine Arts (ESAD.CR - Caldas da Rainha, 2001), attended the Arts Management and Production Course (Fórum Dança, 2002) and the course “Photo-film: Photography as a cinematographic language” (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2019).