PORTFÓLIO TIAGO CASANOVA

(EN)
The universe of the photographic image never
transmits us enough knowledge about reality. What it
transmits are temporal and spatial fragments about a
certain reality that make us imagine the real moment.
Therefore, for those who see the photographic
image almost everything is imagination, and for
those who make it, it becomes fragmentation. For
that simple reason, an expedition to reality through
photography would be a utopian process, and just
as talking about truth is objectively talking about lie,
when we talk about reality we talk about fiction.
One concept does not exist without the other, and
within the sphere of our knowledge it is fiction that
often teaches us what is real, namely in the universe
of the image. Thus, my expedition to reality is an
expedition to our imaginary, a mental exercise that
returns to the origins and intends to understand
how does the human being search for logical and
empirical answers through the fictional narrative, in
order to justify the reality.
absorb and interpret, but also because it is in some
way formatted for certain judgments and values
due to preconceived ideas we built throughout our
experience. But it is through the dream that we can
more naturally access to that subconscious, that sea of
truths and realities. What we paradoxically dream of,
then, is at the same time fiction and reality. It is unreal
within the parameters by which we know the world,
but the purest reality within the individual thought and
feeling.
This way, this exercise presents itself to the public
based on fictional compositions built by my own
dreams, exactly as a pure exercise of individual search
for the subconscious reality, so the spectator can
thenceforth make his own fiction or imaginary, leaving
the significance still totally open for what will be, now
and always, a personal interpretation, and never – the
reality.
Having as base or principle the method used by
the native people before the emergence of the
concept of science, the intention is to imagine how
myths and legends are created, fictional stories that
explain the surrounding reality. But, instead of trying
to understand the natural and the autochthonous,
this exercise tries to understand the contemporary,
having as a starting point reality fragments that
together help creating a highly subjective and
personal story. In fact, it is an exercise that we
unconsciously do every day, but here the intention
is to put this reality into perspective and to make
us think about how we use the subconscious to
understand what surrounds us.
I say subconscious because, in my opinion, it is the
most pure state of perception of reality, since it has
the ability to absorb everything we try, think of, feel
and live; This is something that conscious cannot
do, not only because it is limited in its ability to