The Carlos Machado Museum will inaugurate, on October 9 at 6:00 pm, at the Santo André Center, the exhibition Turdus Merula - du ciel silencieux, by Carlos de Medeiros.

The exhibition brings together 21 photographs that dialogue with passages from the text Les Corneilles (As Gralhas), by Octave Mirbeau, constructing a visual narrative that crosses exterior and interior spaces, evoking seduction, transformation, death, and solitude.

Recognized as a theater and film actor, Carlos de Medeiros brings to photography the same capacity for staging: he prepares the sets, chooses locations and props, and assumes self-representation as a central element. Between fiction and intimacy, the artist places himself on both sides of the camera, in a permanent duplicity.

Turdus Merula - du ciel silencieux also reveals the constant presence of blackbirds in the author’s imagination, birds that have accompanied him since childhood in the Azores and in his retreats near Cabo Espichel.

With photography exhibited since 1986 and several published works, Carlos de Medeiros is represented in collections such as that of Le Château D’Eau in Toulouse and the Centro Português de Fotografia.