PARAFICTION II
(SELECTED WORKS 2017 – 2025)
(in production)
Publication, offset printing, format 13 X 21 cm, 350pp., Portugal – Italy
Language: English
Text: Yaron Dahan, David Perrin, Eric Hynes, Nico Marzano, Sara Magno, Maria Filomena Molder, Pascal Cassagnou, Delfim Sardo, Penelope Curtis, Lars Henrik Grass, Adelina von Furstenberg, Andreea Patru, Michael Sicinski, Matthew Chan, João Laia, Miguel Amado, Emmet Kelley, Frédéric Neyrat, Alba Giménez Gil, Giovanbattista Tusa, Maria Moseng.
Design: Contraestudio, Marcia Novais
Production: Lamaland
Printing: Gráfica Maiadouro
Development support: FLAD – Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento, Film Study Center – Harvard University, Bogliasco Foundation, MacDowell, Civitella Ranieri, Yadoo
Support: Dgartes – Direção Geral das Artes, Batalha Centro de Cinema
Distribution: Mousse Publishing, DAP | Distributed Art Publishers, Vice Versa Distribution, Les Presses du Réel, Antenne Books
In 2025, Salomé Lamas: Parafiction II (selected works 2017-2025) explores the singularity of Lamas' work that lies in the dialogue of different modes of signification (writing, cinema, video, installation, theatre, performance). The originality of this work, which she has dubbed parafiction, presents a polygraphed nature that ends up providing a large-scale mapping of the contemporary artistic creation understood in its transdisciplinary dimensions, evidence of a research embedded in the present time, but which also frames production processes.
The book covers Lamas’ selected works from 2017 to 2024 and includes project notes and production memoirs, contributions by Yaron Dahan, David Perrin, Eric Hynes, Nico Marzano, Sara Magno, Maria Filomena Molder, Pascale Cassagnou, Delfim Sardo, Penelope Curtis, Lars Henrik Grass, Adelina von Furstenberg, Andreea Patru, Michael Sicinski, Matthew Chan, João Laia, Miguel Amado, Emmet Kelley, Frédéric Neyrat, Alba Giménez Gil, Giovanbattista Tusa, Maria Moseng.
Completed projects: Ubi Sunt I – III, Project (2017): Ubi Sunt I (2017), Ubi Sunt II (2017), Ubi Sunt III (2017); Extinction, Project* (2017): Autoretrato [Self Portrait] (2016 – 2018), Extinção [Extinction] (2018), Dream World (2018); Fatamorgana, Project (2016 – 2019): Fatamorgana (2017), What do we talk about when we talk about Fatamorgana (2018), Affektenlehre (2018), Fatamorgana (2018), Fatamorgana (2018), ©Fatamorgana (2018 – 2019), Fatamorgana (2019); Hangar, Metro, Terminal, Project (2018): Hangar (2018), Metro (2018), Terminal (2018); O Corpo, a Sexualidade e o Erótico na Obra de Júlio Pomar [The Body, the Sexuality, and the Erotic in the Work of Júlio Pomar] (2019); Extraction: The Raft of the Medusa, Project (2019 – 2020): Extraction: The Raft of the Medusa (For Interdependence – Cinema and Art Joining Forces to Raise Awareness on The Environment and The Climate Change) (2019), Extraction: The Raft of the Medusa (2019), Extraction: The Raft of the Medusa (2020), Extraction: The Raft of the Medusa (2020); Hotel Royal, Project (2020 – 2021): HR (2020), Hotel Royal (2021), Hotel Royal (2021); Gaia, Project (2021): What if the Meteorites would talk (2021), Gaia: What if the Meteorites would Talk (2021), Gaia (2021); La Vague [The Wave] (2022). Gold and Ashes, Project (2022-2025): Ouro e Cinza/Gold and Ashes (2025), Gold and Ashes / Redux (2025), Gold and Ashes (2025) record-cum-publication.
*The Tower (2015) and Horizon Noziroh (2017) published in Parafiction I.
Parafiction II (selected works 2017-2024) should be understood as an expected continuation of Parafiction I (selected works 2010-2016) and the second volume of a wider collection – Salomé Lamas: Parafiction – that aims at exposing the archaeology of her practice, her matters of concern and her extensive archive. All the books in the collection follow the same editorial structure.
Batalha Centro de Cinema
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