Aldo SOARES (1960) - Lot 104

Aldo SOARES (1960) The Black Stallion, 1992 Silver print Signed and dated on back Size including margins: 30 x 24 cm Note: This image plays on the mise en abyme of cinema and photography: the hand holding the clapper, the handwritten inscription and the inserted portrait compose a device that is both documentary and fictional. The grain, reflections and transparencies of the surface accentuate the impression of temporal stratification, as if several narratives coexisted in a single shot. Soares doesn't simply record a moment of filming; he turns it into an image-memory, where the technical gesture itself becomes the subject, and cinema appears as a factory of fragile icons, always threatened with disappearance.