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Boa Noite Povo



Throughout civilization, we see a recurring pattern: enlightenment periods prioritize reason and science, while obscurantism embraces fables and mysticism. Currently, we’re in a cycle marked by fanaticism and the resurgence of popular beliefs like Flat Earth and anti-vaccine movements, highlighting our inability to question our unconscious tendencies. Through “Boa Noite Povo” (Good Night, People), we explore the nexus of Culture and Nature using semi-performative experiments, employing nocturnal animals as actors to reflect the complexities of our era and its historical echoes. Our visual narrative aims to stimulate debate, transcending conventional photography to provoke thought and inquiry into the human condition.

  • Limited edition of 50 + 5APs
  • Year: 2023
  • Format: Hardcover 
  • Publisher: Superlabo

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Cristina de Middel and Kalev Erickson found a bundle of old Polaroid pictures at a flea market in Mexico City. They believed that the images had all been taken by the same person in the 1970s near the Maya ruins of Tulum. They promptly decided to go in search of the memories that these pictures held.

In the heart of the Mexican jungle, the duo revives this past dissolved in Polaroid emulsion, giving rise to a new story, somewhere between reality and fiction. Printed on giant lenticulars produced traditionally on a frame in the shape of an accordion, old combines with new to question the supposed reliability of photographic archives and historical images.

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