The city as a production space: a brief look at Tom Lisboa's work

Abstract

How to think a contemporary city, increasingly multicultural, with art as kind of compass? What is a contemporary globalized local space? How to set the local in increasingly multinational cities? This space is an atlas designed by entanglements, connections, flows and juxtapositions? The city is a fabric that connects places/situations surrounding space of multiple cultures that coexist with each othe . And so the art, interrogating knowledge and questioning the place as the interplay between art and it makes. What conclude that yes, the photographer can help to problematize the contemporary setting, as well as the researcher who is pondering the question, can interrogates the knowledge established, bringing new perspectives to a situation that is changing at breakneck speed: the city. Based on these questions, this article aims to analyze the work Polaroids (In) visible Tom Lisbon with their specificities and interventions.