Our relationship with old family photographs and photo albums is deeply emotional. When we leaf through old photographs, we are confronted with good and precious memories, but also sometimes with painful issues. Especially when family history contains difficult or silenced episodes, photographs arouse a variety of contradictory emotions. They have a special power to activate our minds. They can linger in our memory as if demanding a response.

The three artists featured in this exhibition have in common the fact that an essential part of their projects consists of old family photographs they have found. The photographs and archives have motivated them and constitute a substantial part of their series of work. The artists are Aline Motta, Sofia Yala and Yassmin Forte, whose family histories are, in different ways, marked by Portuguese colonialism in Brazil, Angola and Mozambique.