Being and Becoming

Becoming is a concept derived from philosophy which considers change in itself as process and transition from a state to another. It refers to the transformation and changes in one's way of being. Change is inevitable and an essential part of the world. This project is about emigration, in particular from Portugal to northern Europe. I was interested on ideas of hybrid identity, by exploring concepts of the third space and the Old and the New, the polarity of living in-between cultures, languages and borderlines. According to some scholars, the third space is an interaction and articulation between two or more cultures and languages. The Old and the New are states of being, and negotiations between social, national, geographic and linguistic spaces. Emigrants are Beings in motion in this New socio-and-geo-cultural context and they are located in the territory between the Old which is part of them and the New which is becoming part of them. My aim was to explore photographically these complex intersections, which deem change in itself as process and transition from a state to another; by dealing with feelings of mobility, duplicity, rupture and identity.