While I Wait (2021/2024)

In the idleness of periods where nothing happens, regardless of how much or what we seek, there is an invisible potential. In these moments, the suspension of waiting highlights the anguish that the immediate and frenetic demand for new images exerts on artists. Haste is antagonistic to the presence required by analogue mediums, and not only disturbs the natural order of the creative process, but also contributes to an unbridled generation of contents where imagination does not develop, it only reacts.

While I Wait was a photographic series first created in 2021, when it was included in a mini-zine collection alongside 10 finalists of Sô Edições’ photobook open call. Three years later, images previously published are merged with new productions carried out in the meantime, composing a reworked new edition of the series.

This project combines home-printing and handmade intervention techniques of analog photographs in an effort to portray the frustrations and acceptances present in cycles of inactivity in which the sacred time of life’s mysteries prevails over our desires, attempts and concerns.