Portfolio Category - Portrait Awards 2014

LIMBO contemplates what it is to exist in an indefinite and uncertain state. By portraying young protesters, Inês d'Orey proposes a reflexive perspective on a revolted and outraged generation that is, at the same time, paralyzed in a state of suspension and anticipation. In the 21st century, after all histories and endings having come to an end, Youth is an age group that increasingly expands its borders: on the one hand, one is part of that group increasingly sooner, on the other hand, the end of that condition is harder and harder to distinguish. This Youth, large in number and in strenght, has at its disposal a whole new world of different means and forms, providing it with a unique, emergent and strong voice. And so do these young men and women wander through their immediate futures, in passionate screams and tense bodies, side by side with disturbing muteness and inertia. LIMBO is an emotional portrait of a generation that, looking at the stage without daring to go on it, under the haze of the non-inscription, waits patiently and impatiently for some other act. It doesn't dare aspire to anything else than the next minute, but deeply believes that, one way or the other, something will have to change.