Think about what it appears like to interrupt away from a glacier, drift away on the present and turn into a lonely kind gazing into the deep blue ocean. That feeling is a part of the inspiration behind Icebergs, the photographic sequence created by Portuguese photographer Nuno Serrão, which will probably be on tour in Italy, France and Greece all through the autumn.
A response to a linked world that is busy, frenetic and infrequently needy, Nuno’s imagery invitations us to journey in a distinct course. It hints at our inward journeys, our solitary experiences not formed by others or how we’re perceived.
“Every thing began from a dialogue inside, an try to know myself. Then I realised I wasn’t alone, that others felt the identical, and that our behaviour in the direction of life, and the way others see us, was a mirrored image of a alternative we made early on once we did not match the norm,” explains Nuno.
That feeling is captured in Nuno’s images of individuals he is come throughout, who is also icebergs. Younger and outdated, varied ethnicities, totally different genders – a few of his topics look melancholy or lonely, others might sound assured or sturdy. The way you see them would possibly even be a mirrored image of your personal internal journey.
Nuno continues: “To interrupt away from the glacier. To float into the open sea, buying and selling consolation and conference for the prospect to seek out solutions we won’t discover in others. Even when meaning spending a lifetime staring into the deep blue.”
The artworks are stunning in unconventional methods, however every does include a way of quiet serenity. “We dwell within the age of multi-tabs, binge-watching, and immediatism,” says Nuno. “We have now immediate espresso, expressways and speedy boarding. All of those are only one lengthy distraction to keep away from the questions that may come up from the discomfort of boredom. A quick life is a numb life, and with all this velocity, we not have the time to know what we’re slowly dropping alongside the best way.”
Festivals and galleries throughout southern Europe have picked up on Nuno’s expertise and what his Icebergs sequence has to say. From 28 August, a choice of the pictures will probably be a part of a bunch present on the Ragusa Foto Pageant in Sicily, then it is on to Grenze in Verona for a solo present starting on 19 September.
The Verona exhibition is being curated by Simone Azzoni, who’s mounting the pictures on sheets of plexiglass. Every will float within the house to enhance the concept every iceberg is adrift, lonely, fragile, and misplaced in time. The viewer, too, will float by means of it, like a castaway, observing and tapping into the unconscious emotions Nuno has captured.
From 25 September, Icebergs will hit La Petite Photograph Gallery in Toulouse for an additional solo present, and concurrently, photographs from the gathering will seem in a collective exhibition at Photometria in Loannina, Greece, beginning 27 September.
Primarily based between Madeira and Lisbon, Nuno runs a advertising company by day, however away from work, he’s a self-taught artist utilizing images, video and writing to discover what he calls “the emergent negative effects of pondering.”
Icebergs is an ongoing mission; Nuno has no thought when it’s going to conclude, however when the time comes, he plans to publish the images in a e-book. He shoots with an analogue medium format digicam, which is a naturally slower course of, in tune with the spirit of the sequence. “I dedicate this sequence to Alberto, my grandfather, the unique iceberg,” says Nuno.
“As Leonard Cohen stated, the cracks are the place the sunshine is available in, however it additionally works the opposite manner spherical. I see the sunshine breaching out,” he concludes.
