João Tabarra (PT, 1966) is looking for the instant, with the development of images and moving images that take a stance, which refuse neutrality. The artist’s career began with a period at Ar.Co (1986-1989), where he studied photography. He experimented with photojournalism, ...
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João Tabarra (PT, 1966) is looking for the instant, with the development of images and moving images that take a stance, which refuse neutrality. The artist’s career began with a period at Ar.Co (1986-1989), where he studied photography. He experimented with photojournalism, but quickly realised that his creativity and critical sense needed an expanded field outside the commercial and conventional communication circuits. His artistic praxis fundamentally explores photography, video and text (which functions as a way of thinking and constructing the narrative that the images translate). Cinema is a kind of great reference point, above all because of the analepsis of short excerpts that are associated with memories and/or thoughts that are detached from reality, but based on vita contemplativa, which, in the words of Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han (b.1959), “presupposes instruction in a particular way of seeing.
