T for Time

Young gymnast on the streets of Lisbon, Aug. 2016.

T for Time

After the earthquake in Lisbon in 1755, the limestone and basalt debris was recuperated to rebuild the city’s sidewalks, creating motifs. Yes, images made up of small black and white dots, and this well before the advent of photography… The French philosopher Jean-Paul Curnier got that one right: ruins and photography are romantic sisters. Both are fragments which install us in a memory and invite us to restore its living nature. This young ginasta, erected on these fragments of ruins, confronts us with Time with a capital T that her body draws.