Artist
Maria João Salgado
Maria João Salgado, was born in Portugal, in 1992 and has studied at the Portuguese Institute of Photography (IPF) and at Institute of Cultural and Artistic Production (IPCI) in Porto. Since 2015 she has been focusing on Documental Photography, mainly developing projects on human rights and alternative living communities. Currently, she is focusing on a more artistic approach, developing themes on personal issues.
Each Step is a Dialogue
“Remember that the world is made of stories” – someone said to me. We stumble, every day, in a loving speech with the greatest points of loneliness, where we lose our speech and the difficulty is not remembering but forgetting. Here, I live to forget. Unrolling the silence of those who feel the other lose their speech. Today, it is in me that this speech is missing. I scream not to be alone, expressing a composite of identity, silence and passion, when looking at the relationship of the self with the other and the relationship of the self to the self. Of how it transforms us, of how we almost don't find ourselves and how we redefine. Each image is a fragment of this transformation and its whole is the confused piece where it is inserted. This is just another story.
O Sahara Delas
At the 3rd oldest active refugee camp in the world, Western Sahara’ women have been confined to the open air for more than 44 years. During the night, they crossed into the desert to flee with their children from white phosphorus and napalm bombs, stepping on bodies and huddling in vans until reaching safe land, building from scratch one of the most organized refugee camps in the world, according to some international humanitarian organizations. After the ceasefire with Morocco, men returned and these same women had to reinvent themselves in order to exist, without giving up their rights. The last African colony remains lost within the international political discussion, but women in Sahara give proof to the world that they know exactly what they wish.
Purga
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Since 2015, young Portuguese photographer and storyteller Maria João Salgado has focused primarily on documentary photography, developing projects on human rights and alternative living communities. Recently, her work has taken on an increasingly artistic approach, incorporating personal themes for the first time.
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Born on the island of Madeira, Nuno Serrão is a photographer and filmmaker whose work is informed by dialogues between science and contemporary art. We hope that his participation in FUTURES will further strengthen his aesthetic approach and critical outlook across future projects.
Sviatlana Stankevich is a Belarusian photographer working with documentary and conceptual photography. Her work focuses on cultures of remembrance and history, with projects covering everything from mass shootings by Soviet authorities to the Chernobyl disaster.
Emergent Ukrainian photographer Xenia Petrovska is based in Kyiv. Her works are rooted in the mysterious and surreal realities, however there are some indirect social contexts. Through FUTURES, we believe Petrovska can build upon the conceptual bases of her projects.