This photographic work is part of Artistic Research III: Visual Essays, a component of the doctoral programme in Contemporary Art. The research explores the intersection between Philosophy and Contemporary Art.
Title: Investigation into the Invisible of Practice: Habit, Repetition, and Variation / from the Memory of the Object to the Memory of the Body.
This work was presented to the College of Arts of the University of Coimbra and exhibited at Q22 as part of Bedside Flowers.
The exhibition was held in “Room Twenty-Two”, a space recreating an old hospital room from the former University Hospital of Coimbra.

“The heavy passing of time rests patiently on a flower, transforming it into a sundial. In such sundials, time is measured by light and shadow. Thus, we learn that any light, in its vocation to illuminate, to brighten, always casts a more or less long shadow. Perhaps this “geometry” of light and shadow is, in time, what we have most certain of.
In BEDSIDE FLOWERS, the resigned journey of the shadow crosses the white wall of a room with the rhythmic cadence of the dripping days. Time becomes perceptible. Here, indeed, there is a time accessible to the eye, a time that, between light and shadow, day and night, is glimpsed as if it were a play of wandering spectres, or diaphanous dreams. There are dreams in time, just as there will be memories in the shadows. And there is light: we do not forget the light that breaks through the shadows.”
Luís António Umbelino.

* March 1, 2025
* Coimbra, Portugal
* Bedside Flowers #155, Visual essay #6
* From the series: Visual Essays
* Also posted at: Academic Research #6
* Object n.: #155.POR-PHD.2025
* Photograph. 70×50 cm. Ed. 1/12 + 3 AP
* Print on Hahnemühle Glossy Fine-Art Baryta, 325 g/m²