In-between this and something else

In-between this and something else invites us to explore the city of Macau through a set of photographs and videos taken by Nuno Cera, where landscapes, architecture, infrastructures, passageways and urban debris are explored in a continuous reflection on time, space and their transformations, while the sound installation presented by Rui Farinha, made from the sound of the interviews in the book, suggests that words, urban noise and interference make it impossible to communicate. The exhibition offers a reflective, creative and subjective look at the challenges posed by urban life in Macau as a place for experimentation.

In-between this and something else comes from the book Macau. Dialogues on Architecture and Society, edited by Margarida Saraiva and Tiago Saldanha Quadros. Published by Circo de Ideias in 2019, the book brings together a series of interviews conducted by Tiago Saldanha Quadros with Hendrik Tieben, Thomas Daniell, Mário Duque, Wang Weijen, Diogo Burnay, Jianfei Zhu, Jorge Figueira, Werner Breitung and Pedro Campos Costa. Margarida Saraiva interviews Nuno Cera, who participates in this issue with a visual essay. The contributions of all the interviewees map Macau’s recent development, generating new knowledge about the city and neighbouring regions. The interviews cross themes such as architecture, city, border, memory, representation and history. In-between this and something else proposes the dematerialisation of the book-object, in words-sounds and images.

In In-between this and something else, the physical, sound and visual contents allude to the context of uncertainty that hangs over Macau’s future, but also to the mixture of styles, unbridled fantasy, exoticism and daring that characterise its urban fabric, built at the confluence of utopias that are not only disparate but also perhaps incompatible.

credits: ©NUNO CERA, 2018