CASA FORTE (VIDEO) | 2006

I kept up with in the distance the demolition of my parents’ home in Recife. I was stunned by the e-mailed images I received. One of them showed our favorite gathering room. Onto a still, lifeless image of it, I projected another, moving image, shot 25 years earlier, in which children play in water or try to save one another from drowning. It was December 25, and the neighbor was listening to Christmas music.

• image (1’48’), sound (5’35’), loops, edition of 5 + 2 AP
• Concept and camera: Renato Bezerra de Mello / edição: Clémence Fernando
• EXHIBITIONS: ‘Inundação’, Museu do Pontal, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil / ‘Casa Forte’, Centro Cultural Banco do Nordeste, Sousa (PB), Fortaleza e Juazeiro do Norte, Brasil / L’Été Photographique – ‘Vuelvo al Sur’, Maison de Saint Louis, Lectoure, França  

Photo: Renato Bezerra de Mello