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Between Montemor-o-Novo and Castro Verde, a segment of the Estrada Nacional 2, Nuno Cera looks for any signs or symbols of activity that intersect with the road. The images of this project were developed in collaboration with O mais comprido museu do mundo / Pedro Campos Costa, and Eduardo Costa Pinto, capturing the time and spirit-time of Place.
With this exhibition, the Convento da Terra Open File N2 begins its dedication to the images that the N2 has inspired and continues to inspire.
“I chose the segment between Montemor-o-Novo and Castro Verde.
My family is from Aljustrel, so there was an emotional connection to the place.
The N2 actually passes through Aljustrel and this was perhaps the reason why I stayed with this segment of the roadway.
When I started photographing, my work was more of a response to the visual stimuli; rather than me actually having a very well-defined theory about the territory. I began by photographing the things that interested me.
In the beginning, in Montemor, I photographed the castle, because I thought it was important to have an initial landmark as a starting point.
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The perspective and vision was not defined. It was more freestyle.
I was very interested in understanding the time of that place.
The work starts every morning and ends each night. The photographs almost portray a daily guide.
Each day ends with an image of the open road at night, with no end in sight. I was interested in showing a progression as if the image itself was the N2 guide.
I was interested in capturing the bullfighting posters and the marks bullfighting left behind.
Since the photographs don’t include people, you can see the past activity and what happened in that space.
In the photograph on the right, you can see the burned down cork oak from the wildfires that passed through the area.
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For me, I felt it was important to mark the beginning and then from there things would have more of a flow.
The photos are almost melancholic, but they only capture a little of that time I think.
Perhaps the lanscape can be seen better in the video, but again this perspective of the territory was taken using different relational scales.
I have more general images rather than focusing on details.
I’m interested in playing with the relational scales of approaching and retreating.
I thought I needed to have something about the relationship between the road and the landscape.
The other day (after the day we started the trip), we returned to the starting point and did the route again, obviously photographing other things.
My final images are at night.
I didn’t photograph much, but I was interested in experiencing the N2 at night, more like a David Lynch approach. Another atmosphere that would also be a reference to the American open road.
It’s already been four years, but I think this work benefits from the passage of time. Since the project is not about the current moment, but from its past.
We see things differently.
I didn’t do that segment of the N2 route again.
I don’t know if there are major changes in the territory.
On a personal note, it was also on the N2 that a few months earlier I had had a motorbike accident, so I have some images that mark the site of my accident.
A very personal connection.
It was an emotional thing to go back to the site of the accident, take photos, and understand what had happened.
It was a coincidence, but it was still strange.
It wasn’t a military job.
These photos and stills can be seen to be different things, because they have a different origin.
When making the diptychs, I was also interested in things that came between the two images.
This idea of what lies between, what connects or doesn’t connect two images, is even more interesting than what is represented in each image.”
Excerpt from the interview with Nuno Cera, O Mais Comprido Museu do Mundo, Associação Antecamara 2023.
