Time on Flores
An exhibition at Gallery Kayafas, 2023.

I have been photographing on Flores since 2014. I have been thinking about the impression an island creates for its inhabitants. Roberto de Mesquita (1871-1923), a poet from Flores, expressed the notion of ‘Almas Cativas’ (captive souls). Almas cativas are "obscure and sorrowful things and people, prisoners of the geographical island and of the island inside every human, the same one which shapes every human.”

Installation Photographs by: Alina Balseiro