Transformers

Curated by Portuguese curator Andreia Garcia, “Double Exposure: the Photography and the Photographer” exhibits 20 years of work and life of the Portuguese photographer Fernando Guerra displayed on mutating, self-standing flight cases.

The exhibition design grows precisely on the curatorial idea that the photographer is always “in transit” which is explicit on site by the use of customised flight cases to exhibit both professional images and personal objects.

Inspired on Marcel Duchamp “Boîte-en-valise”, the artist’s self-made portable retrospective – boxes that unfold as a small museums containing some replicas of the artist’s greatest works, these self-standing “transformers” can be folded into one square meter flight cases, constituting themselves a easily portable exhibition.

The exhibition which displayed on Roca Gallery Lisbon from 17 September 2019 to 18 January 2020 was defined by 29 objects divided by 4 flight cases: the origins of Fernando Guerra entre Portugal e Macau; the internationalization and the trips to Brazil; the relationship with Álvaro Siza and the incursions to Asia and the reportages in Africa.