Dissecar/Dissect by João Mota da Costa
Dissecar/Dissect by João Mota da Costa
Photographs by João Mota da Costa
Edited by António Júlio Duarte and David-Alexandre Guéniot
Design by Tiago Oliveira Santos
Printing by Maiadouro
Edition of 200
Self-published, 2019
Softcover, 21.2 x 29.2 cm
ISBN 978-989-54431-0-9
Dissect
Where humans get knowledge from the body of other humans.
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João Mota da Costa (Lisbon, 1954), plastic surgeon, specialized in hand surgery. Began photographing in 1969, with an irregular trajectory, due to professional reasons. From 2011, he began devoting more time to photography, developing authorial work, and attending several courses at the Atelier de Lisboa, with projects guided by contemporary Portuguese photographers, and the postgraduate course in Discourses of Contemporary Photography at the Faculdade de Belas Artes de Lisboa [Lisbon College of Fine Arts] (2015- 2016).
Individual exhibitions: Abstractions, Arthobler Galery, 2011; Lunch Time Affair - Chapter I (ten rooms for sex), Encontros da Imagem de Braga, 2013; PIN, António Duarte Museum, Caldas da Rainha, 2015; On the other side of the Mirror, Pavilhão 31 do Hospital Júlio de Matos, Lisboa 2018
Exhibitions in the scope of Project Courses at Atelier de Lisboa: 4 projects #44 weeks #88
hours, Pavilhão Preto, Lisbon Museum 2013, with Paulo Catrica; New Works #2, Av. da India Galery, Lisbon 2014, with António Júlio Duarte; That’s How You Call Things By The Names That They Are, Confeitaria, Lisbon 2017, with Paulo Catrica.
Other collective exhibitions: Al Sul, Centro Emmerico Nunes, Sines 2014; Suburban
chronicles, Salão Nobre dos Receios da Amadora, 2015; Disruption, Exhibition Gallery of the South Regional Section of the Ordem dos Médicos [Portuguese Medical Association], Lisbon 2015; Amongst Human Nature, Carpe Diem, Lisbon 2016, as part of the postgraduate course in Discourses of Contemporary Photography at the FBAUL, Écorchés, Lés Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles, 2018, Croyants, Lés Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles, 2019 after workshops with Paulo Nozolino à Arles.
Main Publications: The Tower, author’s edition, 2014; Poplars, author’s edition, 2016; On the other side of the Mirror, author’s edition, 2018; Dissect, author’s edition, 2019.
