Tito Mouraz - Casa das Sete Senhoras, Dewi Lewis, 2016, Stockport
Hardcover, edition of 650 copies. Text by Tito Mouraz, Nuno Crespo (English / Portuguese), design by Sérgio Couto.
In the Beira-Alta region of Portugal, where Tito Mouraz was born and brought up, there is a house that is said to be haunted by the ghosts of seven women, all maiden sisters. One of them was a witch. On nights of the full moon, the women, in their white gowns, would fly from their balcony over to the leafy branches of the chestnut across the street. From there they would seduce men who passed-by.
Mouraz explores the myth of this place through raw, moody black and white images that capture the sense of the night, the fumes, the moon, the sounds of the trees. It is an environment where the past resonates deeply and within which the people portrayed seem attached, like trees, to the land in which they they live. Beira-Alta shaped Mouraz as a child and through his persistent return he searches out the slow changes of time through the gradual aging and transformation of a landscape.
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Pages: 108
Place: Stockport
Year: 2016
Publisher: Dewi Lewis
Size: 25 x 30 cm (approx.)
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Hardcover, edition of 650 copies. Text by Tito Mouraz, Nuno Crespo (English / Portuguese), design by Sérgio Couto.
In the Beira-Alta region of Portugal, where Tito Mouraz was born and brought up, there is a house that is said to be haunted by the ghosts of seven women, all maiden sisters. One of them was a witch. On nights of the full moon, the women, in their white gowns, would fly from their balcony over to the leafy branches of the chestnut across the street. From there they would seduce men who passed-by.
Mouraz explores the myth of this place through raw, moody black and white images that capture the sense of the night, the fumes, the moon, the sounds of the trees. It is an environment where the past resonates deeply and within which the people portrayed seem attached, like trees, to the land in which they they live. Beira-Alta shaped Mouraz as a child and through his persistent return he searches out the slow changes of time through the gradual aging and transformation of a landscape.
Order at Tito's site.
Pages: 108
Place: Stockport
Year: 2016
Publisher: Dewi Lewis
Size: 25 x 30 cm (approx.)