Nuno SerrãoPT
Selected works04 / Photographic series

Spooky Action at a Distance

Nuno Serrão
Photography & moving image

Questioning the power of memories

Artist’s statement
Black-and-white view of a narrow path and a small structure beneath a viaduct in mist.
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Black-and-white view of an empty road disappearing into dense fog between railings.
02Spooky Action at a Distance
Black-and-white photograph of printed photographs arranged on boxes on a dark surface.
03Spooky Action at a Distance
Black-and-white view of a solitary sea stack surrounded by waves.
04Spooky Action at a Distance
Black-and-white view across deeply eroded, bare ridges and gullies.
05Spooky Action at a Distance
Black-and-white photograph of a distant figure in a curved concrete passage with a wooden floor.
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Artist’s statement

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For this project, I have created a series of non-linear narratives depicting emotions that emerged from those memories, often biased, reverberating from a reverie of a life I barely recall.

It’s about the nuanced interplay between memory and emotion, and how our past experiences shape our present.

The result is a visual analisys of the ephemeral nature of nostalgia in the context of puzzle-like fragments that are woven together, and how the nuanced interplay between memory, emotion and perception emerges, shaping an individual’s experience of the world.

Selected readings

03 / Reception & dialogue