AVENIDA DA BOAVISTA (limited edition of 5)

I discovered Michel Foucault’s essay "Of Other spaces" five years ago while working on my thesis. In his essay, he develops a concept called Heterotopia: "Spaces of otherness, which are neither here nor there, that are simultaneously physical and mental.” 

Being in a space physically and not being aware of your surroundings as the mind drifts elsewhere is something that we’ve all experienced. I was strongly drawn to this theory, and started developing a series of collages trying to materialise that feeling. Collage is the perfect medium to express this, in that it involves combining and juxtaposing images that aren’t necessarily supposed to be together aesthetically.