Memory Limbo
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Photography, Francesca Faulin
PROJECT STATEMENT:
These photographs were taken with a Nikon F2 on a single roll of Fomapan 200, shot first in winter 2024 and again in summer. Having lived across different places, I appreciate the overlap of landscapes and seasons, a layering that reflects how the mind works, producing images that are at once disjointed and unified, carrying a dreamlike, prophetic, quality.
Mountains of southern Spain in winter dissolve into Sesimbra’s summer coast: portals opening onto the ocean, castles merging with seaside apartments, calm waters merging with the profile of hills and human figures caught in between. The double exposure gestures towards the insubstantiality of memory—elusive, fading, yet clung to, through recording. In contrast stands the substantiality of change: relentless, irreversible. Nothing remains the same, just as no memory can be fully held. To make sense of this tension—we weave stories.
Francesca Faulin (1985) b. Venice, Italy, graduated in Sociology from University of Milan in 2005, and completed a Master level course in Fine Art Photography at IPCI in Lisbon in 2021. Faulin's practice focuses on photography, writing, research and manipulation of archives and results in handmade artist books and unique prints. Since 2022 Faulin attended several residencies and participated in several group and individual shows in Portugal and Spain. Faulin's latest work "L'ombra, l'originale e la ripetizione" was featured in a solo show at DOPPO, Coimbra, Portugal (2025) and at studio seco in Lisbon, Portugal (2024); it has been long listed for the OD photo prize 2024, and selected amongst the 9 finalists for the Emergentes Award at Encontros da Imagem de Braga, Portugal and showcased within the festival in 2024. Faulin’s self-published artist book "Perché ti ricordi sempre" (For You to Always Remember) was launched in Portugal in 2023 and sold out. In 2023 Faulin founded Studio Seco, a creative studio and exhibition space in Lisbon, promoting art by curating exhibitions with local artists and facilitating artist-led workshops.