While Nothing Happens

While Nothing Happens is a long-term visual research project developed through daily repetition and sustained attention to minimal gestures and micro-events. Each day, I walk the same path — taking organic waste to compost — and use this trajectory as a perceptual framework to observe what usually goes unnoticed.

Rather than searching for decisive moments, the project focuses on what almost does not happen: a leaf moving slightly in the wind, insects crossing paths, light shifting imperceptibly, organic matter slowly transforming. These observations are recorded through short Super 8 films and digital Polaroid photographs, deliberately avoiding spectacle, acceleration or narrative climax.

The work proposes a counter-gesture to the logic of constant productivity and visual saturation. By returning to the same route, the same actions, and the same tools, While Nothing Happens explores how repetition becomes a method for perceiving difference — and how attention itself can be an artistic practice.

This research is closely connected to my poetic project Passeio pelo Méier, in which walking and repetition function as tools for writing and perception. In both cases, the work unfolds through duration, insistence and care, allowing meaning to emerge from the ordinary.