"I was in Japan for the first time. In the night, confined
to unfamiliar rooms, I would look at myself, with only the alien sound
and images from local TV as a companion, I was lost and felt a need to
look at the simple things around me, objects, in an attempt to map a
familiar reality, trying to hold on to the idea that things were still
the same."
Deviation of the sun
is a work about gravity, the ultimate force of placement. I decided to
produce it as a book so as to free the images from the vertical
decisiveness of the wall, giving the viewer the freedom to look at these
images from any given angle and position, and most importantly, from
familiar places of their own, at their own pace and rhythm. The viewer
is thus in a position to explore the unfamiliarity of these images, and
to question their placement, from a familiar vantage point."
António Júlio Duarte
Softcover / 72 pages / color
29.5 x 19 cm