WEDNESDAY (MONTE PASCOAL, BRAZIL)
THURSDAY (MONTE PASCOAL, BRAZIL)
2 lambda prints mounted on aluminium
Dimensions 300 x 180 cm
2005

WEDNESDAY (Monte Pascoal, Brazil) and THURSDAY (Monte Pascoal, Brazil) were shot at to the exact point where the Portuguese navigator Pedro Alvares Cabral first saw main land on Wednesday April 22, 1500. Following the new route to the Indies, Cabral was driven by a hurricane to the coast where he spotted Monte Pascoal, thus discovering Brazil by chance. He first sighted it at dusk but had to wait for the early hours of the next morning to confirm what he had seen. Each photographs are to be installed in two separate rooms. The physical space in between the two images recalls the expectations that Cabral experienced during this waiting period. These two works allude to those few hours in history when the ideals, beliefs and made-up imagery of "The New World" made their lasting entry into the Western psyche.