This document describes the photography project "The Era of Involuntary Memory" by Márcio Carvalho. The project explores how collective and cultural memories are formed through official histories by printing images onto found photos of anonymous people. Some prints feature images of Portuguese tiles to represent Portugal's collective memory. Others print photos of the artist's family onto anonymous photos, crossing people, sites and contexts. Additional prints feature paintings of animals hunting to represent how histories are often told from the hunter's perspective until the lions have historians of their own. The works are inkjet prints on found photos from 2015-2016.
The Era Of Involuntary Memory_Photo Project_Marcio Carvalho
1. THE ERA OF INVOLUNTARY MEMORY
Project by Márcio Carvalho
Photography
Inkjet print on found pictures
How much of our individual identities are formed by official
histories?
Images of Portuguese Tiles, exhibiting the Portugal’s collective/cultural
memory, printed on the surface of found pictures with anonymous people.
13. THE ERA OF INVOLUNTARY MEMORY
Project by Márcio Carvalho
Photography
Inkjet print on found pictures
Crossing people, sites and contexts
Images of my family printed on the surface of found pictures with anonymous
people
21. THE ERA OF INVOLUNTARY MEMORY
Project by Márcio Carvalho
Photography
Inkjet print on found pictures
Until the lions invent their own historians the story of the hunt will
only be told by the hunter
Images of paitings, with animals hunting, printed on the surface of found
pictures, with anonymous people.