Rien

Dark alleys, blocks of cement, tired naked bodies, strings that lead to nowhere, abandoned tubes.
Rien, the new André Cepeda book, is an immersive experience.

Page after page we are led into a void where all things seem to have lost their name, creating a restless and suspended time. More than looking at physical spaces, we feel as if in an endless present tense. There is Emptiness, but a desired one.

Cepeda makes the beautiful more white than black large format photographs look spontaneous and free.

A book about the process of photographing, about film.
A desire to touch and enlighten all things around us.


André Cepeda (b. Coimbra, 1976)

Lives and works in Porto, Portugal.
Since 1999 has been exhibiting regularly and invited for several comissions.
In 2007 was selected for EDP - New Artists Priz; in 2010 for BESPhoto Photography Prize and in 2011 was shortlisted for the Paul Huf Award, of Foam's Fotografiemuseum in Amsterdam..
Selected solo exhibitions were presented at Gallery INVALIDEN1 (Berlin, 2012), Espace Photographique Contretype (Brussels, 2010) and Galeria Pedro Oliveira (Porto, 2011).
Selected collective exhibitions at Photographic Festival (Rome, 2011), Mostra de Video Arte e Fotografia Portuguesa at Centro de Artes Helio Oiticic (Rio de Janeiro, 2010), Marco Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Vigo (2008) and Faulconer Gallery (Iowa, 2008).

More about the author: www.andrecepeda.com

July 2012