Diego Oliveira Saldiva

Besides being a shelter, the house is as well a home, an emotional and intimate place, a private space, a limited territory. The series BAD SPOTS IN OUR BEST TIMES departs from a personal investigation about the issues of home and territory. The work focuses on the process of frenetic urbanization that the city where I born and grew up, Guarulhos, Brazil, knows since the last years. This is a continuous and intense transformation as dozens of new buildings are raised every month, causing changes both in the topography and landscape. I am interested for a long time in the question of territory, not in the geopolitical sense, but rather psychological and sociological terms, linked to cultural identity, the way space is structured, organized and planned. During recent visits to Brazil, I realized that my definition and my feelings about the land and the home have changed. I also notice that every time I return there's something different that happened, either geographically or in terms of family. The result of BAD SPOTS IN OUR TIMES BEST shows spots on a physical space as might be forgetting over memory. This project is planned to be in the form of a book where the pages are superimposed on a variety of forms, creating structures and layout as we turn the pages.