UNTITLED
105cm*148cm publication
2020
Untitled was born out of an experiment I developed in collaboration between Portuguese design students Ana Isabel Teixeira and Pedro Dias. When the state of emergency was declared in Portugal, we became stuck inside our houses for about two months. Because of this, we developed a new relationship with the outside world, and with it came a new concept of inside/outside. We were floating in place inside our little glass shells to protect ourselves from the “invisible enemy”. Separately, we sat by our windows and gave in to voyeurism, watching and photographing any strangers we could see. This resulted in somewhat of a voyeur’s diary, photographic logs documenting the lives of our neighbors and random passerbys. We’ve gathered these images and composed a small zine-like publication.
Two editions of this zine were printed in domestic printers and achieved very different results. While Pedro was able to capture the black and white silkiness of the original pictures, Ana’s printer spat out a acid-washed, mutilated version of the same publication due to lack of ink. We’ve embraced this “error” since it is quite ironic how it accidentally reflects how, despite living under a few of the same restrictions due to the pandemic, we’re all facing different types of hardship and different struggles in our own individual lives.
@Ana Isabel Teixeira, @Pedro Dias
2020
