About this Episode
Photographer Nuria R. Gomes is presenting her first solo exhibition, “Minha Querida. Artefacts for a Speculative Memory”, at the Rainbow Center Luxembourg. The exhibition draws on photographs, letters, drawings and family stories from her Brazilian family archive to explore memory, migration and belonging.
Speaking to Radio ARA, Gomes explained that the project emerged from her family’s experience of migration and her own relationship with a family history spread across continents. A return trip to Brazil in 2023, where she reconnected with relatives after thirteen years, became an important moment in the development of the exhibition.
Through analogue photography and archival materials, Gomes examines how memories are preserved, transformed and sometimes reconstructed through imagination. She described the family home in Brazil as both a real place and an emotional landscape shaped by affection, absence and longing.
The exhibition also reflects on family relationships, including the memory of her sister Tailane, who lived in Brazil until her death in 2015. By combining photographs with letters, album pages and domestic objects, Gomes creates what she calls a space between past and present, memory and invention.
“Minha Querida. Artefacts for a Speculative Memory” is on display at the Rainbow Center Luxembourg until 7 July 2026.
