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Bloodline / Heartline Juli o Sarmento
, MER. Paper Kunsthalle, 2013 HC / 112 pages / 27 x 21 cm. ISBN 9789490693428.
The artist Juli o Sarmento grew up with a somewhat complicated background. This book is a testimony to his 'real' biological family and his 'other' foster family. The first part of the book; 'Bloodline', has all the photographs the artist could find of his biological family up to his birth, they show persons he often doesn't feel connected to or hardly knows. 'Heartline' has all the photographs he could find of the two people in his foster family. They are close to his heart, far from his blood. The book is signed and numbered by the artist in an edition of 250 copies.
95 POLAROIDS SX70 Juli o Sarmento
, MER Paper Kunsthalle, 2012 SC / 168 pages / 24 x 12 cm. ISBN 9789490693411.
This little Polaroid Atlas is pretty much self explanatory: for many years Sarmento has used Polaroid photographs to work on his pieces, as ?crutches? for his paintings, his drawings and other projects. Sometimes the polaroids were used as artworks by themselves. Other times they were used as portraits of friends or memories of glimpses. Sarmonto gathered all the polaroids he could find in his studio, just randomly lying around or pinned up on walls or wherever... He found 95 of them and organized them in this book. There are no polaroids left in Sarmento's studio now!...
Juliao Sarmento Bloodline / Heartline,
BE, MER.paperkunsthalle, 2012 Hardback, 210x270mm, 112 pages . ill. ISBN 9789490693428.
I have a very small, complicated and a bit weird family. In fact I almost had two families: my real biological one (a very mysterious group of people some of whom I hardly knew... others I never even met!....) and also some other people who were kind of my foster family. There are very few photographs, or memories left of both of them. "Bloodline" has all the photographs I could find of my real, biological family up to my birth. The existing blood trail up to me, so to speak... "Heartline" has all the photographs I could find of the two people in my foster family. Close to my heart, far from my blood. On the occasion of the exhibition Retrospective Juliao Sarmento, Serralves Museum, O'Porto, 23.11.2012
