Jorge Molder e Pedro Calapez

Jorge Molder was born in Lisbon (1947), where he lives and works.
In 1980, he held an exhibition in collaboration with poets João Miguel Fernandes Jorge and Joaquim Manuel Magalhães, where he began to outline his interest in narrative insinuation and the cinematic slant of his photography. Film-noir, specifically under the influence of Dashiell Hammett, aesthetically marks the abandoned locations Molder chooses as settings for these early works.
In Joseph Conrad (1990) or The Secret Agent (1991), we encounter a set of scenes and props that evoke a suspended narrative, whose unfolding remains obscure. Between film-noir and the Victorian novel, between the secret agent and Mister Hyde, the “other” is one who has freed himself from the body to fully embrace his spectral condition—this being the very condition of photography itself. In 1999, he represented Portugal at the Venice Biennale with the significant series Nox.

Pedro Calapez (Lisbon, 1953) has participated in exhibitions since 1970, holding his first solo exhibition in 1982.
Exhibitions (selection): 2023 Histórias de uma Coleção, CAM/Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; 2020 Festa Fúria Femina, MAAT, Lisbon; 2020 Fóra de Foco, Afundación A Coruña; 2015 Euroscope (BEI Collection), Cercle Cité, Luxembourg; 2013 There is only drawing, Fundación Luis Seoane, A Coruña; 2011 La colección, Fundación Barrié, A Coruña; 2005 piso zero, CGAC, Santiago de Compostela; 2005 Lugares de pintura, CAB, Burgos; 1999 Dias de escuridão e luz, Kunstmuseum Bonn; 1997 Campo de Sombras, Pilar i Joan Miró Foundation, Mallorca; 1993 Petit jardin et paysage, Chapelle de la Salpêtrière, Paris; 1991 21st São Paulo Biennial; 1991 Histórias de objetos, Casa de la Città, Rome; Carré des Arts, Paris; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; 1987 19th São Paulo Biennial; 1986 42nd Venice Biennale.