Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Cafe Evropa @ Test festival, Zagreb 2010

Test!0 theatre programme summary

Author: Joao Paulo Nasri
Contact:
joaopaulonasri@gmail.com
Country: Portugal
Title of the work: Café Evropa



Art photography approaching the idea of social consciousness. Using double exposure technique the author is interested in the space generated between two images. Photographs were made between 2003 and 2009 in various European countries between Lisbon and Istanbul, two European capitals standing far apart although sharing the same atmosphere. With this project the author is searching for an idea of Europe through the cafe as the concept.

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Cafe Evropa @ Fabrica do Braco de Prata, Lisboa 2010

7 a 31 de Janeiro 2010

Joao Paulo Nasri CAFÉ EUROPA Fotografia

De acordo com George Steiner, uma ideia da Europa pode ser construída tendo o conceito do café como pano de fundo. O café onde uma conversa começa ou uma novela acaba. Marcando num mapa do mundo os locais onde existem cafés desenhamos o mapa da Europa.

O trabalho apresentado enquadra-se em fotografia artística aproximando-se de uma consciência sociológica. Talvez até um outro olhar à fotografia documental. Usando a técnica digital de dupla exposição, o autor está interessado no espaço gerado entre duas imagens numa mesma fotografia. Este trabalho fotográfico foi realizado entre Lisboa e Istambul (2003-2009), duas capitais europeias que, embora a distância, partilham de uma mesma atmosfera.

Nasri documenta situações, experiências e perspectivas. Em Abril de 2006 foi convidado a apresentar este projecto no festival Test7 em Zagreb. Nos últimos anos passou por cidades e instalações: Ljubljana(2007-09), Sarajevo (Festival Internacional Sarajevska Zima 2009). Chega finalmente a Lisboa, na sua terceira e última fase, para depois seguir em 2010 para Istambul enquanto capital europeia da cultura.

João Paulo Nasri. 1980 Born in Lisboa, Portugal.
João is documenting situations, experiences and perspectives. In April 2006 he was invited to present his first photography project in the Test7 festival in Zagreb. During the past years Joao has exhibited his works in Ljubljana(2007-09), Porto (2007), Lisbon (Shadow 2009), Sarajevo (Winter Festival 2009) and Berlin (2009). His work is mainly embedded in conceptual art and can be reflected on the art installation that complements the photography work. Joao is today interested on taking the challenge of experimental photography through Lomography and related techniques. Follows a short description:
Biography: 2004 Graduated in Mathematics. 2005 President of AEGEE Lisboa, the European Students Forum. 2006 Course on analogical black & white photography. 2007 Member of IRIS, a photography workgroup in Lisboa. 2008 PhD student on Mathematics in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Free Education on photography in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Projects: 2005 Um_Bigo Project: international project on documentary photography. 2006 Lomographic Perspectives. 2007 Iris Lisboa: multidisciplinary photography workgroup. NeTejo: views on the river Tagus. 2008 Ti_ule Mizule, experimental photography movement. 2009 Gallery Studio 8 (administration and curation)
Solo Exhibitions: 2006 TEST7 Festival, Zagreb, Croatia. 2007 100 + nem -, Porto, Portugal. Interculturalities, by CFRG, Seixal, Portugal 2008 Um_Bigo revisited, Antwerpen, Belgium. Cubix, European Perspectives, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 2009 Sarajevska Zima 2009, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Hercegovina. Café Evropa, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Tokyo Eye, Berlin Porn Film Festival, Berlin, Germany. The Aesthetics of Silence, Sowieso, Berlin, Germany
Collective Exhibitions: 2007 Tejo, Almada, Portugal. 2008 NeTejo, an itinerant exhibition, Portugal. 2009 Projecto Sombra, Lisboa, Portugal.