Hadamo

«Every morning when I go out this door, it's the first thing I see. It's the first to say hello. It is a father, it destroys us but he does not kill us». Chã das Caldeiras is a small community located on the slopes of the Pico do Fogo volcano, in Cape Verde. A powerful eruption, in 2014, has submerged the country in a black flood of debris that now dominates a primitive and solitary landscape: a dark expanse, in which a few roofs of houses still surrounded by the caldera of the eruption emerge. After losing everything they owned, the inhabitants are forced to rebuild their future. But is there really life away from the volcano? Mónica Martins Nunes builds a visual tale about loss, a symbiotic relationship with a maternal, and at the same time devastating, nature that draws the charm of an impossible return to its original state, in which the human figure is a tiny counterpoint to the vastness of the landscape. In the grey there is heat, there is the fire from which to rise again.