Descripción de la Exposición
"Udgang" by Inês d'Orey
Curated by Hugo Dinis
The artist Inês d'Orey (1977, Porto) presents her new exhibition entitled Udgang at Galeria Presença, from June 17th to September 4th, 2021. Through a series of photographs taken in Copenhagen, Denmark, during her artistic residency at the Embassy of Portugal in September 2020, the artist reflects on the current situation and, more precisely, on cultural spaces, in a year marked by its closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Curtains and doors are closed, chairs and stages empty, the spaces with dust and dirt, are some of the elements photographed in this series. Through them, the persistence of a certain solitary experience becomes common and communitarian due to the same experience lived by everyone. If the physical distance, rather than the social one, imposed by sanitary rules, if the individual liberties offended by successive declared states of emergency, have become limiting and enclosing, then the point of view of the photographs presented here provides not only a resistance of bodies against the invaders, but above all the promising resilience of a future to come.
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[BIO]
Inês d’Orey (1977) lives and works in Porto.
She undertook a degree in Photography at the London College of Printing (2002) and received a scholarship from the Portuguese Center of Photography between 1999 and 2002. In 2016 she attended an Artistic Residency at Carpe Diem Arte & Pesquisa, in Lisbon.
Inês won the Fnac New Talent prize in photography in 2007 and she published two books: "Mecanismo da troca" (2010) and "Porto interior" (2011). Most recently, she won the Moscow International Foto Awards (2019), with her latest series of Tokyo photos “Do not sit down”.
Amongst her latest exhibitions we can highlight her solo exhibition at Galeria Presença “Do not sit down”, “Tr3s Quartos” at Douro’s Wine Museum and her group exhibitions “Fresh Eyes” at Galleri Image in Aarhus, (Denmark) and “Does this place remind you of somewhere?” (itinerary exhibition, Portugal). Furthermore at the Sines Art Center in Portugal Inês d’Orey introduced “Sweet Calm or Domestic Violence?” (2020) and “Antecâmara” at Balkan Bishop, in Belgrade, Serbia at the Belgrade Photo Month (May 2021).
Besides her artistic practice, she works as a freelance photographer, for private clients and public institutions. She frequently publishes and exhibits her work in Portugal and abroad and she is represented in several private collections.
Exposición. 13 dic de 2024 - 04 may de 2025 / CAAC - Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo / Sevilla, España
Formación. 01 oct de 2024 - 04 abr de 2025 / PHotoEspaña / Madrid, España
