Where Do We Go Now! Délio Jasse
© Délio Jasse
About This Exhibition:
Where Do We Go Now! is a series of online exhibitions that runs from October 2013 until July 2014 at VASA curated by Rui Goncalves Cepeda. It is built around the subject of geography as a battleground between distinctive contemporary ideologies and contested territories.
The body of work that will be presented throughout this period engages in narratives and stories that explore the authority of ‘geography’, as a body of knowledge with political implications in the age of global communication, to unravel the disruption of the social order in the public and private space.
It evolves around two key conditions: on the one hand, borrowing from Prof. Irit Rogoff thoughts, expressed in the essay What is a Theorist? (2006), it addresses the dynamics of loss, of giving up, of moving away, and of being without as “a journey of phases in which the thought we are immersed in is invalidate”; whereas, on the other, this series inquires in to the contested territories of contemporary photography in a digital-democratising age, from being a visual medium for collective memory to issues about copyright and authorship, and on the limitations of photography in terms of narrative capacity.
In Where Do We Go Now! Part I: Délio Jasse the focus is on the dynamic of moving away and with the idea of dislocation. Délio Jasse (1980, Luanda, Angola, lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal) through his works Identidade poética (2009) and Schengen (2010) examine and reflect on his condition of immigrant and how the European society exerts surveillance on to those. Where Do We Go Now! Part I: Délio Jasse aims to give answers on our present condition, while relating both conceptions (moving away and dislocation) to the subjects of belonging, identity, archiving and memory.
Rui G. Cepeda
Curator
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All images in this exhibition: © Délio Jasse