Carla Cabanas (1979, Lisbon) appropriates part of the title of Jorge Luis Borges’ The Book of Imaginary Beings (created in collaboration with Margarita Guerrero), originally published in 1957 as Manual de Zoología Fantástica [Handbook of Fantastic Zoology] and expanded in 1967 and 1969, for Seres imaginários, an exhibition/installation that opens its doors, on the one hand, to the private world of the artist’s memories, and on the other to a speculative sphere concerning what (the constructions of) these memories could be.
Continuing her inquiries into the roles of memory/memories and photographic images, particularly those taken from the family photo albums she finds or purchases, in the construction of identity narratives, Carla Cabanas uses exclusively, and for the first time, photographs of herself and her family in Seres imaginários.
By showing us pictures from a family photo album that, due to its normality – or humanity –, could be our own, the exhibition/installation...transcends the sphere of individual, non-transferable memories and attains the realm of collective, shared memories. In both cases, telling what is real and what is fictional appears an almost impossible task.
Entrada actualizada el el 17 may de 2022
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