The multidisciplinary artist and activist, Mário Macilau, inaugurates at the end of this month, a diverse series of photographs in an exhibition entitled "Shadows of Time", a work that is part of the project "Memory Cycle" both exhibitions will be on show in two different spaces in Lisbon, Portugal.

According to the newspaper "O País", the exhibition is part of the series "Memory Cycle" is a visual research project that brings together pieces depicting abandoned colonial buildings that became legacy or heritage after colonization, despite having lost their characteristics of organic functionality, each photograph locates figures, often women or children, whose image levitates over difficult encounters with the ruined structures that surround them. The photographs evoke some melancholy, as one lives alongside the spoils of a devastated area.

With "Cycle of Memories," Mário Macilau makes the choice of what is visible and what should be hidden, or unveiled. "Here, the ghosts are not people, but the mirror of a failed ideology - morally defective action or colonialism, with the proclamation of violence in the name of progress," says the artist.

Macilau researches the passage of time, space, and the relationship between these two elements and living beings, and how both change with the passage of time. Through his work he also questions aspects of identity and of working or environmental conditions.

On September 30th, Mário Macilau follows the inauguration of another solo exhibition to the center of Lisbon, at Espaço Artroom, to present "O Mundo Desmoronado", which reflects on the current reality through a visual research made by the artist in Mozambique.

His artistic method involves a long work of research that goes through the careful knowledge of people, immersing himself in communities he documents in order to understand the political place of work. His photographs are thus a reflection of socially oriented processes and practices that recognize the significance of images in changing social attitudes, mobilizing agency. In this exhibition, the artist reveals everyday interventions of working-class people and the community at large.