The idea of journey along nearby paths but also the practice of travelling to more distant places is the subject of the images in this exhibition. Alexandre Delmar was invited to look at the archive of images that make up his series of works "Monumentos Acidentais" (Accidental Monuments), which he defines as “Coincidences, bodies and unstable structures - collection of journeys”, caught in different locations — Minho, Braga, Serra da Estrela, Malanje, New Delhi, Badami, Hampi, Skopje or Dhaka — and times, between 2007 and 2020.

These images reveal very particular, reflective and visual relationships between man and the natural space while highlight the search for multiple aesthetic, emotional, ecological, spiritual and political meanings in the landscape. The very heterogeneous set evokes contemporaneity but also ancestry, human presence as well as the existence of what is beyond it, building up a sense of mystery and timelessness.

Text by Sandra Vieira Jürgens