Diogo Bento
Standard Deviation
For Standard Deviation I examined the science behind climate change through the perspective of those working in the field. I approached this project from a positivist perspective, questioning the technical and philosophical devices associated with the scientific method. I have been looking at science and scientific research as a place where the natural and physical world is comprehensively — obsessively — observed, measured, classified and ordered in the name of surveillance and climate data modelling.
Throughout this project, I have come to develop a strong collaboration with both local and international scientists working in Cabo Verde and was able to grasp a tip of the entanglements and contradictions associated with climate change-related scientific research. In the process, I came to understand that error plays a crucial part in illuminating the path to knowledge and focused my approach in the most humanising and intimate aspects of science, where failure, improvisation or “unimpossibility” are most visible.
Diogo Bento (1984) lives and works in Mindelo, Cabo Verde. He studied Photography at Ar.Co, in Lisbon, and completed his postgraduate studies in Photography and Contemporary Art at IPA/Atelier de Lisboa. His artistic practice is focused on an understanding of the landscape as a space of cultural embodiment, a place where natural, physical and symbolic dimensions interact and collide. He has been involved in several artistic and educational projects as a photographer, trainer, curator and founding member of AOJE, an organization dedicated to the promotion of photography.
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