Saudade

by Baltazar Fajto

“This project has developed at the ends of Europe: Cabo da Roca, North Cape, Gavdos Island, Istanbul, and Vorkuta. Save for Istanbul, all the other locations are considered the most extreme points of the continent. These places are also extremely distant for me, an inhabitant of the central mainland of Europe, which I had never left before.

It is an inspection without an external reference frame, an attempt at overcoming solipsism. Tracing a border around the space of all past experiences, I survey the emerging whole. I discover which pieces of what I know stay at home and which accompany me regardless of where I look.”

Texts in English and Polish.

Exhibitions:

• Saudade – Exhibition and authors meeting, Ostrøv, Poznań, 2019
• Saudade – Exhibition and photobook premiere, Galeria Wejście Przez Sklep