Out of sight, out of mind

Do you know what it is to sharpen a razor and wipe away the tears on the skin of the profane?

Do you know what it is to raise your hands before the sacred, that baroque body whose skin shines under the sun in search of a long breath of memory?

OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND is a project about photography and literature. It is an idea about a country, Brazil, still unknown to us, that does not enter through the front door, but rather deviates from the path in search of a present time that will always be a passage. Nothing inside each of these images is definitive. Nothing inside each of these words will be eternal, this verse invented so that man can bear his own existence, his own selfishness.

Here, inside the images and words, we will always be on the edge of the abyss because that is how we truly are. The strength of this feeling will be present in the eyes and voices only of those who shout from the inside out: we know how to love as much as we know how to hate; We know how to smile as much as we know how to destroy; we know how to cry as much as we know how to lie. That is why the sacred and the profane. That is why the brotherhood between image and literature. That is why the incessant struggle to protect what is most valuable to us and not allow this breath of humanity – what is usually called ‘culture’ – to be transformed into consumable material, into a disposable product.

Diógenes Moura