Mendes De Almeida

Mendes de Almeida

Location: Unknown

Graduate of the “Instituto Português de Fotografia” - Lisboa

Individual exhibits :

“ Ao Lado “
Biblioteca Orlando Ribeiro
Lisbon 2006

“ Portas da Mente ” (Doors of the Mind)
Galeria de S. Bento
Lisbon 2008

“ De Dentro “ (Inside)
Museu das Telecomunicações
Lisbon 2009

“ ID “
Pavilhão 28 - Espaço Expositivo do Hospital Júlio de Matos
Lisbon 2009

“ Bancos do Conhecimento “
Galeria Corrente D’Arte
Lisbon 2010

“ Lugares com Memória “
CAC - Centro de Artes e Cultura de Ponte de Sor
Ponte de Sor 2010

“ La Cage aux Foles ” ( on the show by Filipe la Féria )
Centro de Congressos do Arade
Portimão 2010

“ Vidas Contadas “ (Told Lives)
Hospital Miguel Bombarda - Museu
Lisbon 2011

Collective exhibits :

“ Ruído “ ( curator: Miguel Matos )
Galeria de S. Bento
Lisbon 2011

Present :

Works in the Modern Art collection of the « Fundação PLMJ »
Lisbon
(indexed as « José Crespo Mendes de Almeida »)
(http://www.fundacaoplmj.com/)

Works in the « Hasselblad’s Owners Club »
(http://www.hasselblad.com/hasselblad-owners-club/hasselblad-photographers.aspx)

Works in several private collections


Portfolio:

ID

ID. - 2009
(Life and Death / Light and Shadow)
Some places transmit unique sensations, of a present inseparable of a strong, enduring past. Sensations of what has been, of a reality telling different stories. Facts gone by, joys that were, lived dramas.
Walls may tell stories of life and death, physical and psychical.
And there is light and shadow. What’s evident and what’s just guessed, in an allegory of good and evil, of Eros and Tanatos. All in all inseparable, two versions of a single reality, of dawn and twilight.
This series was shot in an abandoned psychiatric ward and tries to express the eagerness for life and death, the search for light and shadow.