With ‘Pogo’, fifteen years of images become a quietly insistent meditation on memory, intimacy, and the fleeting nature of existence.
In ‘Pogo’, Viridiana Morandini gathers photographs made between 2009 and 2024 into a sequence that follows feeling rather than chronology, letting everyday scenes, landscapes, and relationships speak as vessels of time. The book unfolds in shifts and murmurs, moving from sudden accelerations to moments of stillness, where the most ordinary gesture can turn into a metaphor for holding on to what inevitably escapes.
The editing process embraces collaboration as a form of authorship. Guided by the curatorial eye of PHMuseum and Lewis Chaplin of Loose Joints, and enriched by the contribution of photographer Alba Yruela, the sequence finds rhythm in accumulation rather than order. A text by Rubén Lardín threads through the pages like a companion voice, amplifying the sense that these fragments—though deeply personal—resonate as a shared, collective memory.
Morandini’s images are anchored in presence. Technique recedes so that experience can surface: siblings on a trip, a room between afternoons, a face that returns only in the negative. What began as an urge to record becomes a language of attention, a way to reencounter those who are gone and to keep sensations from vanishing. Designed by Kentaro Terajima and printed in Bilbao by Artefacto, the volume carries the quiet discipline of Swiss binding, inviting the reader to turn pages slowly, to listen alongside the photographer. “I stay still and do nothing. Nothing happens. I think of nothing. I listen to the passage of time,” she writes, as if naming the very cadence of the work.
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