Portuguese Week: Tito Mouraz – LENSCRATCH
Today we present the work of Tito Mouraz, a Portuguese photographer from the interior north of the country. He too, enjoys to photographically approach the themes of landscape, memory, myth and nature. The first major work in Tito Mouraz’s career was Ope
Today we present the work of Tito Mouraz, a Portuguese photographer from the interior north of the country. He too, enjoys to photographically approach the themes of landscape, memory, myth and nature. The first major work in Tito Mouraz’s career was Open Space Office, about the exploration of nature’s possibilities by humans, and the radical transformation it operates in the landscape. Developed in Portugal’s marble quarries during three years, it reveals a paradox, in the sense that while human interventions in nature can lead to unprecedented destruction, they can also create beautiful images. A comforting idea, that it is still possible to find poetry in destruction. He approaches many of the primordial elements that are apparently constitutive of a particular gaze from the region. In Open Space Office, I am particularly drawn to the image where one can notice a crack in one of the walls. Not coincidentally, a few years later the collapse of a marble quarry in Portugal raised questions on the safety of such places.