In his extensive photographic and video ouevre, Nuno Cera works on the themes of movement/travel, memory, and urban contexts. In many of his pieces, the artist seeks to capture the concept of the global city and the ways in which individuals relate to the cosmopolitan environment. In Lost, lost, lost (a series of sixteen photographs, seven of which belong to the collection), Cera develops a work about displacement (of the urban space and of the unidentified or abandoned spaces, of bodies, of objects) and its impact on our memory relations with those elements.

The series explores the tension between the city, nature, and the individual, and the moments of uncertain and deviant connection between the three. In these seven images, the human figures (a face intersected by a shadow and a hand, a pair of isolated legs) and the objects that simultaneously demonstrate the human existence and absence (an abandoned bracelet on an empty bed, a desk, a lamp, a table, a chair, all reflected in the window of a space where the human figure that occupies it cannot be glimpsed) are represented in a state of suspended movement from which the narrative cannot be discerned (only fantasised).

The urban space is represented from a reflected or blurred point of view, impossible to embrace or perceive as a whole. The human relationship with the surrounding space is temporal and palpable, having as intermediaries the objects that serve as memory devices of such narratives suspended by the capture of only a fraction of a second, but that nevertheless does not make the images static.

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