An interlude is the pause between two parts — neither what came before, nor what comes after. Domes, still water and waves share that same stretch of silence.
Inhabiting the interlude means staying in the gap: under a dome, at the edge of a lake, inside a wave — the instant between one place and the next.
In a world marked by constant noise and accelerated flows, Habitar o Interlúdio (Inhabiting the Interlude) proposes a pause. Fred Lamego's photographic project is an invitation to contemplation and to a return to silence — not merely as the absence of sound, but as a state of presence.
The images, captured across a range of places — from Macapá to Tokyo, from Óbidos to Jerusalem — trace an emotional geography guided by light, stillness, and a poetics of the sacred everyday. Each photograph is an interlude, a crack in time that lets us breathe.
The serenity radiating from these landscapes is not passive; it transforms. It proposes a gaze that does not impose, but rests. As we move through these spaces, we understand that peace inhabits the interval between looking and feeling. All it takes, as the author reminds us, is to look.
— Léo Tavares, curator