A tree is the deepest symbol of life for artist Isaac Pereira
When Isaac Pereira decided to create an installation at Macau's Ox Warehouse, he wanted to make an intervention based on several subjects: the idea of intimacy, that of letting viewers explore their own feelings, and the relationship that the viewer establishes with the content of photographs.
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Ox Warehouse
When Isaac Pereira decided to create an installation at Macau's Ox Warehouse, he wanted to make an intervention based on several subjects: the idea of intimacy, that of letting viewers explore their own feelings, and the relationship that the viewer establishes with the content of photographs.
The exhibition is structured around the abstract concept of "tree", which the Portuguese artist considers "the deepest symbol of our life cycle" and "a metaphor of our human condition". Pereira's black-and-white photographs are meant to relate to the ideas of "memories, dreams, ordinary life, desire and hope".
"When I began by searching for my materials — more than 10,000 negatives — I found a sequence of a tree from more than 10 years ago. I purposely shot this landscape to get a sequence in time. I realised I had found a starting point to explore," he says.
Pereira, 48, says he's trying to find visual relationships between meaning and form, to offer an "open fiction" to the visitors. Some of the smallest images at the exhibition are inside dark wooden boxes and covered with tracing paper to evoke the experience of looking through old family albums.
