A DIARY IS AN INFINITE SADNESS,

A POSTCARD AN INTENSE JOY

A postcard is a heart laden with words and silence, a spark where we breathe from afar the longing for a face, a labyrinth of shadows and paths. It is an inexhaustible source, a wrinkle of time, bread on the table, a dizzying array of fruits and memories. Between sleep and death, secrets of destiny are revealed, as in letters or in the most intimate pockets.

Adelino Marques’s postcards prolong what always remains incomplete: an idea of memory, a study of timelessness lived moment by moment. They show places, objects, absences — the ever-changing sea and sky, captured by a gaze in silent confrontation with the world.

Each observer sees themselves reflected in the waves, the sand, the birds. What we observe is diffuse, ironic, ancestral. Adelino, a compulsive intimist, gathers the subtlety of time, the moments in turmoil, the fever that the gaze heals without rest.

In a kaleidoscope in perpetual flux, his postcards are a silent listening to an endless murmur. They are marks of time without anguish, always attentive to the essential, the minute, the diaphanous. They are an intimate expression of a profound visual language, where the gaze becomes spiritual and human communication.

As the gaze is not a desert, but a magical and shareable place, these postcards transcend the mechanical record: they are a living, sprawling, exuberant expression. They reveal the human landscape as a timeless story, where we wander with a gaze that is already bodiless.

Adelino Marques sketches, shares and stages what dazzles him. He lends to the deciphering the brilliance of a flame — sometimes absent — with which we illuminate the night of days. He is a surveyor of melancholy, suspending in the air the silent gesture of hands.

MIRA | SALA project

The MIRA | SALA project aims to showcase photography projects (without excluding other forms of expression) by artists who have the opportunity to display their work in a private space: a room used for workshops and meetings with a window opening onto MIRAflora, MIRA’s aromatic courtyard. We wish to make the most of this space by providing

an opportunity to present established or experimental projects.

The spatial management of proposals will be overseen by the MIRA Galerias team, but the project is managed by the artists. We provide production and promotion of the project on social media and in our newsletters. Each project – whether individual or collective – must be submitted in advance to the management of MIRA Galerias via email to miragalerias@miragalerias.net. A brief biographical note, synopsis and portfolio must be sent alongside the proposal. Participation is free of charge.

PAST EVENTS:

ver longo | Sofia Sequeira Pinto | 10 Mar – 6 May

Nothing Will Disturb Us? | Rui Apolinário | 10 May – 7 June

Credits

MIRA Galerias | MIRA FORUM

Directors Manuela Matos Monteiro and João Lafuente

Communications Manuela Matos Monteiro and Beatriz Vital

Assistant Beatriz Vital

This exhibition is part of the (in)visibilities and drifts project and is supported by DGARTES. 

Nasceu em Gondomar, onde vive.

Iniciou o contacto com a fotografia no final dos anos 70, na Faculdade de Medicina do Porto, sendo um dos colaboradores do Departamento de Fotografia da Associação de Estudantes.

Frequentou o Curso Livre de Fotografia da Cooperativa Árvore nessa mesma época, e mais tarde o Instituto de Cinema de Fotografia – Porto.

Tem exposto o seu trabalho, individual e colectivamente, em Portugal, Espanha, França, Itália Alemanha, Ucrânia, Polónia, Finlândia, Brasil, México, Argentina e Estados Unidos da América. Está publicado em revistas e livros. Alguns dos seus trabalhos fazem parte de colecções particulares e institucionais