“In Detailed close-ups of far-off scenes I want to investigate and confront constructed realities, myths and beliefs, and the blur between truth and fiction and faith.
I do this by documenting what I consider archetypal situations of forgeries, hoaxes or plain deceptions, as well as cases in which the only thing at stake is perception and belief. The situations jump from particular to particular, as if entries to an encyclopaedia. They range from science, to art, to history, to architecture, or government.
The documentation is done mostly through photographs – that I photographed myself –, as well as some objects, souvenirs, memorabilia, and models. Every situation documented is accompanied by a text that describes the facts being documented.
Photography has always been used as a tool to record “the truth”, which does not prevent it from having been manipulated since ever just depending on the creator’s intentions, the viewer, the context in which an image is presented, and the caption accompanying it.”
– Carlos Azeredo Mesquita
