autofiction • moving image
Home Textures
Video art
2024 - 1’35” | Digital | Color | Sound
Archival footage shot in Brazil (2006)
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*Work available under request: pedroborbamendes@gmail.com
Excerpt from"Home Textures" (2024)
It began with the rediscovery of the first footage I ever recorded as a child — a spontaneous, erratic tour of my father’s house, captured with a handheld camera. In its raw form, the video documents not the space itself, but a child’s fragmented perception of it: fixated on mundane details, wandering through the domestic space without narrative. What I first saw as a personal artifact soon revealed a deep resonance with the aesthetic and thematic concerns of my current practice.
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Rather than presenting this footage as documentation, I transformed it into a sensory collage of digital impressions, where embodied, instinctive gestures and in-between frames suggest the sentimental textures of memory. The initial work has since evolved into an ongoing series in which I revisit recordings of every place I’ve lived — from childhood in Brazil to adulthood and migration in the UK and Spain — searching for echoes of that same uncontrolled gesture.





