Caderno de Bordo IX, 2007
Quick Drawings III 2014
Travelling Into Your Bookshelf – Lijiang
Oikonomos, 2018
In Oikomonos (2011-2018) is more evident the exploration of portraiture – anonymous or fictional bodies and identities
move through this globalized world. The artist himself poses for the camera wearing a white shirt and the head covered
by shopping bags from different locations, directing the viewer's gaze towards the wording on the bags and what they
represent. Through a combination documentary precision with poetic imagination, Edson's images invite the viewer to
decelerate from the fast-paced daily routines of busy cities and to slowly engage with and reflect on complex issues such
as the effects of globalization, on consumerism, on themes of displacement and construction of identities in this fast-
changing world.
The Shimmering Inbetween I, 2020
Oikonomos, 2018
In Oikomonos (2011-2018) is more evident the exploration of portraiture – anonymous or fictional bodies and identities
move through this globalized world. The artist himself poses for the camera wearing a white shirt and the head covered
by shopping bags from different locations, directing the viewer's gaze towards the wording on the bags and what they
represent. Through a combination documentary precision with poetic imagination, Edson's images invite the viewer to
decelerate from the fast-paced daily routines of busy cities and to slowly engage with and reflect on complex issues such
as the effects of globalization, on consumerism, on themes of displacement and construction of identities in this fast-
changing world.
Oikonomos, 2018
In Oikomonos (2011-2018) is more evident the exploration of portraiture – anonymous or fictional bodies and identities
move through this globalized world. The artist himself poses for the camera wearing a white shirt and the head covered
by shopping bags from different locations, directing the viewer's gaze towards the wording on the bags and what they
represent. Through a combination documentary precision with poetic imagination, Edson's images invite the viewer to
decelerate from the fast-paced daily routines of busy cities and to slowly engage with and reflect on complex issues such
as the effects of globalization, on consumerism, on themes of displacement and construction of identities in this fast-
changing world.
Oikonomos, 2018
Em Oikonomos, Edson Chagas (Luanda, 1977) dá continuidade a uma reflexão que, iniciada em 2011-2012, adquiriu novos contornos por volta de 2017. Tanto o recurso ao método serial na fotografia, como a decisão de manter algumas das suas séries em aberto e em processo revelam um aspecto fundamental da prática artística de Chagas. Trata-se da procura constante e minuciosamente atenta ao mundo em redor, do local ao continental e ao global, e por isso mesmo, também e sem contradição, desacelerada e introspectiva, vivencial e intuitiva, sem nunca abdicar do espaço e do tempo necessários à observação e à reflexão, à experiência e à experimentação, nomeadamente no que ao próprio meio da fotografia diz respeito, enquanto ponto de partida formal e conceptual para todos os demais sentidos que a sua obra indubitavelmente adquire. A fotografia, entendida e praticada de forma serial e expandida, subjectiva e não documental, permite-lhe tomar criticamente o pulso aos impactos que as dinâmicas sociais, económicas e políticas do capitalismo globalizado têm tido sobre os ritmos quotidianos das cidades do Norte e do Sul globais, cujos espaços e objectos escapam cada vez menos à total mercantilização, e cujas subjectividades se reduzem cada vez mais ao desagenciar alienante do consumo (ou do seu desejo). O artista incita-nos a um questionamento essencial, enquanto ponto de partida para a procura conjunta de outros modos de vida.
Cristiano Mangovo_current exh
