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DISPAR – ALTERNATIVE PHOTO
Tracing the Impermanent
Nothing stays the same. Everything is in flux.
In DISPAR, transformation unfolds not just within the artworks but in the very act of looking. This exhibition is a space where images breathe, dissolve, and reappear, where materials shift between presence and absence, where time leaves its mark and then vanishes.
Through alternative photographic processes—such as cyanotype, a sustainable caffenol developer, lumen prints, chemigrams, phytograms, and watergrams—the artists surrender control to light, chemistry, and organic matter. Their works are not fixed representations but active encounters with impermanence. Textures emerge and erode, emotions ignite and fade, nature shapes and reshapes itself.
What happens when we embrace change?
Franziska Nagelová’s Crush captures the fleeting moment when emotions surface—chemical reactions mirror the collision of bodies, ideas, muses, expanding and dissolving before our eyes.
María Molina’s Holy Shift reimagines the Virgin’s mantle as a site of metamorphosis, where fabric, flowers, and tradition blur into layered identities—fragile, sorrowful, powerful.
Dianaif’s and even the trees we walked under unfolds like a drifting memory, a cyanotype walk through time, where light sculpts uncertainty into form.
Isa Cancela reflects on nature’s cyclical existence—its quiet resilience, its inevitable decay, and the way we so often take its rhythms for granted.
Julia Shuvchinskaya’s Ocean is my Lover turns to the sea, a lover whose touch is unpredictable—deep, playful, destructive, tender. Her live performance invites us to engage with this shifting intimacy too.
Marta Duarte’s To the Lighthouse explores Porto’s iconic Foz do Douro, where the river meets the sea. Through a series of cyanotypes, Marta examines the overlooked details of this beloved place, moving from sprawling, metaphorical vistas to an intimate focus on the elements that quietly shape the shoreline’s identity.
A Multi-Sensory Experience at the Vernissage
DISPAR extends beyond the visual—it is a collaboration across senses:
Pedro Petiz’s soundscapes echo the exhibition’s shifting moods, immersing us in a landscape of impermanence.
Mariana Martins de Oliveira’s tablescape - Flatbread Stories is an edible performance that unfolds like a developing image—delicate, fleeting, and sensory. At its core, flatbreads serve as the foundation, recalling the paper surface where impressions take hold. Five dips, each echoing the hues of the photographic processes, form a palette of flavor and color. Scattered edible greens and flowers imprint the plate like organic traces, capturing the ephemeral essence of alternative photography. This shared act of eating becomes a moment of transformation—a composition that dissolves and reemerges with each bite, inviting participants to experience food as both a material and a memory, a surface and a story.
Júlia De Luca’s light installation manipulates illumination itself, revealing and erasing in equal measure.
To engage with this exhibition is to embrace the in-between, the uncertainty of what is forming and what is fading. It is an invitation to be present, to witness, to let go.
Curator, Organizer: Franziska Nagelová
📍 Location: Allmo Gallery, Rua de Faria Guimarães 363, Porto, Portugal
🖼️ Exhibition: 8.2.–23.2.2025
🎉 Opening Vernissage: 8th February 2025, 18h
In collaboration with Allmo Gallery and Aquela Kombucha.
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DISPAR – ALTERNATIVE PHOTO
Tracing the Impermanent
Nothing stays the same. Everything is in flux.
In DISPAR, transformation unfolds not just within the artworks but in the very act of looking. This exhibition is a space where images breathe, dissolve, and reappear, where materials shift between presence and absence, where time leaves its mark and then vanishes.
Through alternative photographic processes—such as cyanotype, a sustainable caffenol developer, lumen prints, chemigrams, phytograms, and watergrams—the artists surrender control to light, chemistry, and organic matter. Their works are not fixed representations but active encounters with impermanence. Textures emerge and erode, emotions ignite and fade, nature shapes and reshapes itself.
What happens when we embrace change?
Franziska Nagelová’s Crush captures the fleeting moment when emotions surface—chemical reactions mirror the collision of bodies, ideas, muses, expanding and dissolving before our eyes.
María Molina’s Holy Shift reimagines the Virgin’s mantle as a site of metamorphosis, where fabric, flowers, and tradition blur into layered identities—fragile, sorrowful, powerful.
Dianaif’s and even the trees we walked under unfolds like a drifting memory, a cyanotype walk through time, where light sculpts uncertainty into form.
Isa Cancela reflects on nature’s cyclical existence—its quiet resilience, its inevitable decay, and the way we so often take its rhythms for granted.
Julia Shuvchinskaya’s Ocean is my Lover turns to the sea, a lover whose touch is unpredictable—deep, playful, destructive, tender. Her live performance invites us to engage with this shifting intimacy too.
Marta Duarte’s To the Lighthouse explores Porto’s iconic Foz do Douro, where the river meets the sea. Through a series of cyanotypes, Marta examines the overlooked details of this beloved place, moving from sprawling, metaphorical vistas to an intimate focus on the elements that quietly shape the shoreline’s identity.
A Multi-Sensory Experience at the Vernissage
DISPAR extends beyond the visual—it is a collaboration across senses:
Pedro Petiz’s soundscapes echo the exhibition’s shifting moods, immersing us in a landscape of impermanence.
Mariana Martins de Oliveira’s tablescape - Flatbread Stories is an edible performance that unfolds like a developing image—delicate, fleeting, and sensory. At its core, flatbreads serve as the foundation, recalling the paper surface where impressions take hold. Five dips, each echoing the hues of the photographic processes, form a palette of flavor and color. Scattered edible greens and flowers imprint the plate like organic traces, capturing the ephemeral essence of alternative photography. This shared act of eating becomes a moment of transformation—a composition that dissolves and reemerges with each bite, inviting participants to experience food as both a material and a memory, a surface and a story.
Júlia De Luca’s light installation manipulates illumination itself, revealing and erasing in equal measure.
To engage with this exhibition is to embrace the in-between, the uncertainty of what is forming and what is fading. It is an invitation to be present, to witness, to let go.
Curator, Organizer: Franziska Nagelová
📍 Location: Allmo Gallery, Rua de Faria Guimarães 363, Porto, Portugal
🖼️ Exhibition: 8.2.–23.2.2025
🎉 Opening Vernissage: 8th February 2025, 18h
In collaboration with Allmo Gallery and Aquela Kombucha.
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