Developed between Tokyo and Lisbon, ZONA is a project that emerged directly from faded memories and notes from a dream-diary. After many sketches the project grew into a photographic documentation of different interior landscapes and situations. ZONA explores both a mental and physical space – an attempt to represent the unconscious mind and the symbolic nature of archetypes.
Always, with a heavy dose of poetry involved. Nuno’s previous work, State of Mind, dealt with people absorbed and lost in their thoughts, in ZONA there’s a necessity to delve deeper into this particular arena and see how we think and what are our fundamental fears and emotions. The narrative of this series follows a single live-performance and is somewhat similar to a dream experience – one feels both familiarity, intimacy and strangeness.
The result is a sensuous, quiet and dark book, delivering images with a memorable cinematic quality.
