• This work arises from the translation of principles and ideas from painting, through dance, into photography, following the language of each discipline. The photographs are part of the record of the dance piece "Kind of Blue" directed by Lua Carreira.

    The show takes its initial inspiration from the work "Antropométrie" by Yves Klein, where, along with performative acts, bodies are investigated as living brushes, exploring the forms they can create. From Klein's principles, Carreira takes these ideas to the performative space: where she explores the possibilities that these ideas can conceive in a given time, space and relationship with the audience: through the colour blue she seeks to elaborate several layers of emotional states, to explore the definition of emptiness and the body in movement.

    From these principles, the photographic register is elaborated, where the aim is to translate a continuous event in time, in instants. These instants are explored on their own, as well as in relation to other instants and with a continuity.

    How to show in a single frame the succession of movements, is one of the questions we seek to answer.

    The photography is presented as a final synthesis between the disciplines: seeking to present pictorial principles as well as those of the dance work. This record is elaborated with several different photographic techniques: double exposure photographs, long exposure photographs, and photographs of brief instants.

    The double exposure photographs seek to present the complexity of movement through duplicity. The long-exposure photographs investigate the trajectory created by a given movement in space. Finally, those of brief instants seek to freeze a movement in such a way that they look like poses, when in reality they are dance.

    The different meanings of the colour blue cannot be ignored, and by way of reflection, the photographs are titled with nautical terms. This is done as an attempt to link dance, movement, navigation, sea and sky.