TEM BIGATO NESSA GOIABA

Tem Bigato Nessa Goiaba (2019)
To live, and to love is visceral. This project has been made as a means to understand the parallels between my migration from Brazil to Australia and my separation from my partner of ten years. It focuses on exploring the layers that constitute my hybrid identity through the devouring of the self and my cultural influences. Drawing from Magical Realism and the Anthropophagic Manifesto, Tem Bigato Nessa Goiaba has been made without censorship and through it I share the disorders, choices and metamorphoses that have allowed me to simply live during this period of emotional transition. It aims to have provocation and stimuli that deconstruct notions and customary ways of thinking. It also points out divergent paths that do not mix or unify; they affirm differences and diversity, fluidity and flexibility.

Shot in Brazil and Australia, Tem Bigato Nessa Goiaba is the result of a year long research project I have undertaken during my Bachelor of Arts (Photography) (Honours) at RMIT University. The purpose of this project is to attempt to understand the nonlinear period that succeeds the coming out of an emotionally abusive relationship rather than provide an effective solution to overcoming emotional abuse and trauma. Thus, this personally transformative project and journey seek to contribute in the dialogue of con-fronting emotional abuse and volatile relationship dynamics.

Tem Bigato Nessa Goiaba has been awarded the 2019 CCP Salon Momento Pro Best Book Design and has been a Finalist, and awarded a Commendation, in the 2019 Australia and New Zealand Photo Book Award.

Tem Bigato Nessa Goiaba was showcased at the inaugural Showcase Stand as part of the Melbourne Art Book Fair at the NGV Great Hall.

Melbourne Art Book Fair is part of Melbourne Design Week 2022, an initiative of the Victorian Government in collaboration with the NGV

Tem Bigato Nessa Goiaba was available at the Photobook Market as part of the PHOTO2022 Photography Festival at the Photography Studies Collage on the 21st May and 22nd May. I hosted a talk at my stall as part of the Meet the Makers series at 4:30pm on the 21st May.

Tem Bigato Nessa Goiaba is also available at the Metropolis Bookshop and at The Paperback Bookshop, both in Melbourne, Australia

Book details:
Self Published
No. of pages/sides: 96
Editions: 2nd edition
Print run: 2nd print run
No. of copies printed: 150 (signed and numbered)
Editor: Cecilia Sordi Campos
Designer: Cecilia Sordi Campos
Dimensions (W x H): 210 x 297mm