In Intimate Distance, Uncaptured City, Edson Chagas presents several bodies of work developed over the last two decades: Found Not Taken (2008-2014, London, Newport, Luanda), Archives of Absence: Involuntary Images (2019, Namibe), and Common Walls (2022-2024, Lisbon, Brescia). The exhibition places in dialogue photographic series that are formally very distinct but which, nevertheless, converge conceptually. Through them, the photographer has reflected not only on the photographic medium itself, the imaginative and affective possibilities of photography and the limits of the documentary, but also on the corporeal and emotional, physical and psychic experience of inhabiting the urban spaces that have marked his biography. Through various strategies of abstraction, the works evoke different ways of inhabiting Luanda (where he was born, lived and to where he continues to return), Lisbon, London and Newport (cities where he lived and studied photography), as well as frequent passages through the city of Namibe, in southern Angola, and through the city of Brescia, in northern Italy. Ana Balona de Oliveira, curator.