Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea

Rua Serpa Pinto, 4 | Rua Capelo, 13 1200-444 Lisboa

22 . 10 . 2026 → 07 . 02 . 2027

tuesday - sunday → 10:00 am – 01:00 pm :: 02:00 pm – 06:00 pm

Last admission → 05:30 pm

Curated by

Nuno Crespo + Filipa Oliveira

Artist

Délio Jasse

Presented as part of the 2026 edition of the Imago Lisboa Photo Festival, dedicated to the reconfiguration of photography, Between the Skin and the Document brings together works by Délio Jasse (Luanda, 1980) that question the authority of the colonial archive and the mechanisms of power embedded in the production and circulation of images. Drawing on photographs, postcards, aerograms, passports and identity documents found primarily at Lisbon’s Feira da Ladra flea market, many of them originating from the personal archives of Portuguese people who returned from Africa, Jasse questions the processes of selection, classification and exclusion that determine what history preserves and what it consigns to oblivion. Through cutting, erasure, montage, superimposition and chemical transformations of the image, the artist subverts the authority of the document and reveals the absences and silences inscribed within the archive. Photography thus ceases to function as stable evidence of the past and instead becomes a living material, open to imagination and reinterpretation. Moving between document and fiction, memory and imagination, lived experience and administrative record, Between the Skin and the Document proposes a reflection on photography as a territory in which history is contested, repaired and reinvented. By opening fissures in dominant narratives, Délio Jasse creates space for other memories, other forms of existence, and for the stories that archives alone could never tell.