Blue Mud Swamp
Filipe Casaca
Self-Published
English/ Portuguese
Text by Mingyu Wu
Velvet bound Hardcover with a Tipped-in Photo
56 Pages
237 x 314 mm
2012
ISBN 9789899714915
The shoreline, hot and humid, is a postcard that attracts and invites Men to settle where the land meets the Yellow Sea. However, the reality is dissonant. Although surrounded by natural beauty, beaches and entertainment facilities, the city and its urban spaces transmits, as a whole, a feeling of artificiality. In some cases the abundance created a certain degradation and abandonment. With a splendour that takes us back to a recent past, a certain melancholy is present, as happens with all that was new, colourful and perfect but perished with time. Dalian, China.
About the Artist
Filipe Casaca (Lisbon, Portugal; 1983). Graduated in Plastic Arts Sculpture at Faculty of Fine Arts (Lisbon) and on Photography at Portuguese Institute of Photography (Lisbon) in 2008. He frequented the Artist in Residence Yamanashi (AIRY) (Japan) in 2011, and in the same year was awarded an Artistic Creation Scholarship by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
