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The Asteroids series is a set of photo-collage photographs. These photographs clearly reveal the procedures of cutting and grouping photographic fragments, making evident the form and the limits of each one.

Each photo-collage is created from a photographic register made during a few hours’ walk through an open space. The landscape is photographed in all directions showing its geographical elements, vegetation and the sky. From these images printed on paper, the work in the studio is to manipulate this photographic material to create another landscape. The elements and the local color of the original landscape now make up a convex body that floats in space.



“In the Asteroids series, the multiple points of view which construct the new landscape attack the perspective paradigm which rules the photographic model and the possibility of a privileged point of view destined to the spectator; it also reveals another dimension of time, thus undermining the characteristic temporality of photographic fragmentation, that is, the instant, as a possible leap outside time. Finally, it emphasizes time as an irreducible element of separation, of the cut, between the photographic sign and its reference.” (Glória Ferreira)