Angst / João Mota da Costa
Angst, intense psychological feeling characterized by a sense of oppression, insecurity, bad humor, resentment, and pain, that precedes an event, occasion or circumstance and is usually associated to either real or imaginary dangers.
Birth, life, and death are an indivisible whole that marks the tragic and troubled nature of our existence. Our lives are constantly threatened by disease, accidents, and moral quandaries that are a source of constant anxiety.
Given that human beings are the only beings who are conscious of their own mortality, we find ourselves in a very peculiar situation, charged with dreams, questions, deprivation, suffering, interrogations, and hope, the quintessential existential angst.
Angústia, from the english Angst.
Temer, from the german Angst.
Angst, intense psychological feeling characterized by a sense of oppression, insecurity, bad humor, resentment, and pain, that precedes an event, occasion or circumstance and is usually associated to either real or imaginary dangers.
Birth, life, and death are an indivisible whole that marks the tragic and troubled nature of our existence. Our lives are constantly threatened by disease, accidents, and moral quandaries that are a source of constant anxiety.
Given that human beings are the only beings who are conscious of their own mortality, we find ourselves in a very peculiar situation, charged with dreams, questions, deprivation, suffering, interrogations, and hope, the quintessential existential angst.
Angústia, from the english Angst.
Temer, from the german Angst.
Angst, intense psychological feeling characterized by a sense of oppression, insecurity, bad humor, resentment, and pain, that precedes an event, occasion or circumstance and is usually associated to either real or imaginary dangers.
Birth, life, and death are an indivisible whole that marks the tragic and troubled nature of our existence. Our lives are constantly threatened by disease, accidents, and moral quandaries that are a source of constant anxiety.
Given that human beings are the only beings who are conscious of their own mortality, we find ourselves in a very peculiar situation, charged with dreams, questions, deprivation, suffering, interrogations, and hope, the quintessential existential angst.
Angústia, from the english Angst.
Temer, from the german Angst.
Photographer: João Mota da Costa
Sequence: João Mota da Costa and Paulo Nozolino
Editing: Tiago Casanova and Pedro Guimarães
Graphic Design: Inês Nepomuceno
Prepress: Pedro Guimarães
Production: Tiago Casanova
Production Assistants: Antonis Pappos, Emilie Tizien and Nick Hard
Printing: XYZ Press
2025
XYZ Books
52 pages
30 x 20 cm
Softcover with textile
Hand-made
First Edition
Edition of 200 copies
ISBN 978-989-35169-8-0