SO I REFUSE TO BECOME A PALE IMAGE OF WHAT I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN TO YOU (VIDEO) | 2005

This work is made up of two items from a family archive: a love letter, from which I have borrowed the title-sentence; and a photograph of my father as a young man, possibly taken in the 1940s on Boa Viagem beach in Recife. The colors of his portrait fade very slowly, without ever fully disappearing.

• 5 hour video loop, edition of 5 + 2 AP
• concept: Renato Bezerra de Mello
• editing: Jonas Esteves
• EXHIBITIONS: ‘Déplacements’, Le Showroom, Paris, França