STAY AT HOME - PORTUGUESE
IN COPENHAGEN
BY MARTA DIAS
PT | EN
Since March 13th, the Danish government has introduced lockdown measures.
"Stay at home - Portuguese in Copenhagen" is a small view of the Portuguese community in Copenhagen where life outside the home has ceased.
They are Portuguese who live alone or with their family.
They are Portuguese who came (for now) only to study or who have lived for many years and established their roots here.
The brief minutes for the "portrait at the door" tries to contrast with the long weeks of a uncertain time with the "saudade" and the Portuguese's smiles that will always be present.
Bio
Marta Dias was born on September 27, 1988, in Lisbon. Coming from an “albicastrense” family, she soon showed interest in the visual arts, motivated by several uncles and cousins with competence for plastic arts.
She completed the Architecture master degree in Lisbon with the final thesis of the course, Urban and Riverside Landscape - Study of Praça do Comércio through the photographic view where she attended several courses at the Instituto Português de Fotografia; presented in 2014, it was classified by many as “bold”, but managing to combine its knowledge of architecture with the taste for photography.
She did an architecture internship in Utrecht, The Netherlands and participated in several exhibitions including solo exhibitions on his humanitarian trip in 2015.
For the past two years, she has been in Copenhagen, Denmark looking for new opportunities and discoveries.