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Escavadora

Escavadora

Rita Lino

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“An excavation is more than just the unearthing of remains or specimen. It is a process involving both burial and discovery. ‘Escavadora’ is the Portuguese word for ‘excavator’ - a feminine noun that exudes the power and strength of a machine. Rita Lino’s work has always treated the body - her own body - as a vessel for making larger statements.  In this book, however, the body serves as a tool for exploration.  In the caves and mines that she photographed, the body itself is the explorer, a machine plunging into the depths of places where vision is encumbered, where past and future become one endless tunnel with no light at the end. Outside of temporal and spatial limitations, Lino’s images create a dystopian underworld where the removal of human markers leaves only a landscape of rocks and shadows that encompasses the viewer and leaves visceral traces of melancholy and disturbance. For Lino, this exploration is a necessity, driven by visual curiosity instead of a search for catharsis. In the darkest of dark places, emotion does not exist, only action and self-preservation. The buried remain buried. There is no great discovery.” (Andy Pham)

Photographer: Rita Lino
Editing and Sequencing: Rita Lino, Tiago Casanova and Pedro Guimarães
Graphic Design: Inês Nepomuceno
Printing: Gráfica Maiadouro
Editing Advisory: Laia Abril
Production: Tiago Casanova, Pedro Guimarães and Nina Škarbalová

2023
XYZ Books
16,5 x 21,3 cm
Offset Printing
Hardcover
Insert (8 pages) in Inkjet
First edition
300 copies

This book was developed within the framework of the XYZ Books Residency Program in 2022

Institutional Partners:
República Portuguesa
DGArtes



Awards:
- Best Book Design - Portugal 2024 (Honourable Mention)
- Best Book Design from All Over the World 2025 (Shortlist)
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About — We'e XYZ Books, a Lisbon based independent publishing house. We focus on publishing high-quality photography books, often featuring the works of contemporary photographers. XYZ Books was founded in 2013. The founders, Tiago Casanova and Pedro Guimarães, are themselves photographers and have used their expertise and passion to create a publishing house that is dedicated to showcasing the best of contemporary photography.

In addition to publishing books, we also organize exhibitions and other events related to photography. The publishing house has gained a reputation for producing visually stunning books that are carefully designed and produced to the highest standards.

We're much more than just a book publisher. Inside its premises, XYZ Books hosts five interdisciplinary and nonprofit projects, including a bookshop with a focus on photography, a publishing house, and a printing lab. The publishing house participates actively in international photobook fairs, photography festivals, and organizes workshops, exhibitions, and presentations.

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