_RÉMANENCE — do efémero à memória_ explores gesture as a form of invisible writing. The result of a one-year photography residency at the EVC, this exhibition does not seek to document dance itself, but rather the traces that remain when the body has already disappeared. Using movement photography altered through layering, erosion and erasure processes, Estelle Valente creates images that build a narrative of dissolution, where gestures break apart, evaporate, and become traces and visual memory.

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_RÉMANENCE — do efémero à memória_ explora o gesto como uma forma de escrita invisível. Resultado de um ano de residência artística de fotografia nos Estúdios Victor Córdon, o projeto da exposição não procura documentar a dança, mas revelar os vestígios que permanecem quando o corpo já desapareceu. Através da fotografia de movimento, transformada por processos de sobreposição, erosão e apagamento, as imagens constroem uma narrativa de dissolução, em que o gesto se fragmenta, se evapora e se transforma em rasto e memória visual.

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RÉMANENCE — do efémero à memória | Estelle Valente

The Photography Artist Residency Program provides a support space for photographers who want to deepen their language in the context of the performing arts and particularly in dance. Given the specificity of a photography program, the EVC provide the perfect setting, with a wide range of activities that are very enriching for participants in this initiative. Throughout the residency, photographers have the opportunity to propose images of artists or activities they captured to the EVC team through our communication channels, in a process of constructing discourse and promoting their work.

Between 2024 and 2025, we are showing an exhibition by Guilherme Gouveia, titled “Sobre o Estúdio 1”, which presents the result of the photography residency he undertook at the EVC in 2023.

This year, we welcome Estelle Valente, who proposes to explore the poetic movement of dance in author photography in her project _Faire Danser l’image_.

_How can we create a direct connection between photography and dance? How can we include the movement of dance in photography in a different way? How can we transcribe movement poetically? All this will be the starting point for my research in this residency. The idea is to develop my creativity and experiment with new techniques or concepts around movement photography, pushing my artistic limits. Poetry, either visual or written, will be at the center of my approach all the time._ — Estelle Valente