Hope

EXPLORING THE DESIRE TO PERCEIVER DURING TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY WITH ALICE QUARESMA

PHOTOGRAPHY


Alice Quaresma is a photographer who experiments with materials to make images sensorial and playful, pushing photography beyond the flat surface. She uses her personal archive to explore displacement and identity, painting lines over photographs to break the camera's perfection and bring the hand gesture to the foreground. Fascinated by the ocean as a place of discovery, her work embraces the ludic condition of being in progress. In May 2020, during the Covid lockdown, Quaresma kept a visual diary documenting feelings of hope through photography and collage. Light, color, fragments of normalcy. Each image holding onto something. This diary fragrance reminds us of the vital need for hope.


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Hope Alice Quaresma
04 / 2020
FOLIE
ÀPLUSIEURS
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Day 01 — Ilha
Feeling isolated. The isolation sometimes makes me feel productive but sometimes makes me feel sad.
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Day 04
I woke up feeling energize. I got out of bed singing.
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Day 06 — Walk the Line
I want to be at two places at the same time. With my family and at home.
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Day 09 — Era
Ready to walk up the mountain.
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Day 10 — Be Close
Reflecting.
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Day 12 — Tropical Blues
Feeling excited with a surprise I got last night.
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Day 13 — Ocean Line
Work in progress following a new path, but still don’t know the final destination.
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Day 14 — My Reflection
Taking the time to regenerate.
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Day 16 — Casa
At home, being present, enjoying the moment.
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Day 19 — Blooming
Contemplating all the grades of blues in the sky and watering my plants.
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Day 20 — Changes
A new week, a new morning, a new beginning.
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22 Day 22 — All Sort of Things
23 Day 23 — Overtime
24 Day 24 — The Following Fall
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Day 25 — Lembrança de um Beijo
Siting on the floor of my living room, feeling the warmth of the sun.
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Olfactive Journal

Hope

Perfumer — Mark Buxton

Lavender, grapefruit, bergamot, verveine, blackcurrant buds, peony, guaiacwood, jasmin sambac, musk, cedarwood.

04 / 2020

Series Statement

Over fixed periods, we invite artists to keep a diary with us — through audio, text, video, image.

They share textures, thoughts and experiences from that time.

At the diary’s close, our perfumer creates a fragrance — not as translation, but as portrait.

A period in the artist’s life,
filtered through another’s attention.

The scent becomes an anchor, but not for preservation.

For return. For continuation in another form.

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