Rainbow, photography exhibition by Paulo Paz at Forte de Santo António da Barra

"Arco Íris", exposição de fotografia de Paulo Paz no Forte de Santo António da Barra

Exhibition Free entry

Saturday 25 April · until 30 Sept

The exhibition presents Paulo Paz's 'Rainbow' series, consisting of seven black-and-white photographs that explore color and light through collages and manipulations, all from the same space of the fort.

When sunlight passes through raindrops, refraction occurs: white light is decomposed into the seven colors that form it. The rainbow shows what is beyond the apparent, what we see, the light, the white: it shows what white is. The Rainbow series, by Paulo Paz, consists of seven photographs, named after the seven colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. Color is a feeling, a sense, an emotion. All images are, naturally, black and white. Seven. Each image is made up of a collage of seven copies of the same image: Paulo Paz starts from a print, enlarges it on an old photocopier, changes the scale, the disturbances introduced by the apparatus. And he crumples the sheets, then smooths them out. We see, feel the creases, he tears one of the vertical sides of the image, overlaps the seven copies out of phase, assuming the tear, the last image completes the first. Inside, the image develops, extends, is the same image, builds a new image. The photographs are of the same space: the fort, from the terrace, the bastion, the sea, the sky, the horizon, the infinite. Seven, symbolically, is the number of plenitude. The seven colors together form white. The seven fragments, one image. The seven images, the series. Image: Title: Red, 2020. Registration and more information: fsab@cm-cascais.pt. Organization: Cascais City Council.