Photomaton

Fernando Mota
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Photomaton

Photomaton is a portable realm, an itinerant installation, an album of strangely poetic pieces, a plastic-sonorous invention without an instruction manual.  After Tabula Rasa, an experimental musical instrument created from an ironing board, sprouts the Prepared Suitcase, an old cardboard suitcase where chords, pins, wheels and other mischievousness played with the hands, chopsticks, violin bow and pandemonium. With this instrument, the Portuguese viola, and other sonorous objects, we will write our travel logs with nail violin-players, ballerinas in serpentine dances filmed by the Lumière brothers, windchime umbrellas and lamps that bid farewell to the rain...