In Lisbon, the juxtapositions of spaces folding and flourishing in close range is striking. Abandonment and restoration are occurring simultaneously. Amidst the EU financial crisis our images question how independent one space is from another using reflections as permeable membranes between opposite conditions. “Vis-à-Vis” captures this process literally and aesthetically, recording palimpsests that encourage more than one reading.



“Belém” documents entropic processes occurring on the fringes. We find inspiration in the fray. As Elizabeth Grosz explains in “Architecture from the Outside” the space in-between is a place where things become unravelled but such action also produces potential for new connections, identities and directions.



Experimenting with the entwinement of inside and out, one and the other, and their relations within the built environment of Lisbon, we made two camera obscuras in a continuation of the series “Out of Place”. Within two buildings adapted to tourism, a restaurant and a hotel, we projected what was outside inside by darkening the room leaving a small hole as aperture, turning the entire room into a camera. What was revealed was a wider perspective and a more distant other.



Together the three projects form "Another Place" examining proximity, liminality and otherness in Lisbon's architecture.