Jorge Molder
Portugal
Jorge Molder was born in Lisbon (1947), where he lives and works.
In 1980, he held an exhibition in collaboration with poets João Miguel Fernandes Jorge and Joaquim Manuel Magalhães, where he began to outline his interest in narrative insinuation and the cinematic slant of his photography. Film-noir, specifically under the influence of Dashiell Hammett, aesthetically marks the abandoned locations Molder chooses as settings for these early works.
In Joseph Conrad (1990) or The Secret Agent (1991), we encounter a set of scenes and props that evoke a suspended narrative, whose unfolding remains obscure. Between film-noir and the Victorian novel, between the secret agent and Mister Hyde, the “other” is one who has freed himself from the body to fully embrace his spectral condition—this being the very condition of photography itself. In 1999, he represented Portugal at the Venice Biennale with the significant series Nox.
In Joseph Conrad (1990) or The Secret Agent (1991), we encounter a set of scenes and props that evoke a suspended narrative, whose unfolding remains obscure. Between film-noir and the Victorian novel, between the secret agent and Mister Hyde, the “other” is one who has freed himself from the body to fully embrace his spectral condition—this being the very condition of photography itself. In 1999, he represented Portugal at the Venice Biennale with the significant series Nox.
