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MODUS VIVENDI27 Shore RdLondon E9 7TAUnited Kingdom
[email protected]@ArsBeneVivendi
No. 1 / Porto
MODUS VIVENDI is an independent publicationby artist Isabel Sierra y Gómez de León.
All images and texts © Isabel Sierra y Gómez de León 2013
What you see is what it seems. Modus Vivendi is a celebration of the ‘tourist eye’, which materializes through photography and has never been more relevant. In this day and age, cameras don’t only encapsulate our experiences to simplify our storytelling, but
serve us as some sort of existentialist stamp that mark the ‘dejá vu - dejá fait’..
Modus Vivendi as a publication is no more than that — a proof that the photographed locations are ‘yes-places’, a
proof that, with my photographs and with other guest photogra-phers’ we have stolen that trace of relative existence and brought it to thousands of kilometres away to turn it into our documents.
Or art pieces. Or re appropriated views.
Opening the series, Porto as a symbol of a re appropriated environment. While the outskirts follow the natural development
of the city towards modernity, the Centre feeds the ghosts of the city that once was.
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