230x310x18 mm, hard cover, 168 pages
Signed edition

One’s Own Arena is the final moment in a trilogy, after Things Here and Things Still to Come (2011) and Costa (2013). This time the territory is Toyama, Japan.

One’s Own Arena creates an arena of visual relationships in the city of Toyama, Japan, portraying men and women in their own circle of confidence and the city’s dark alleys, bars, plants and objects. All is mixed among sequences of intimate images of women in his hotel room, working as studies of the body, a trademark of Cortes' work. Key to the exploration are the surfaces: skin, texture, light and shadow and even film itself is revealed as the essence of what is to be known.

One's Own Arena was exhibited at Fundação EDP/MAAT Musem (Lisbon, 2015) and published as book by Pierre von Kleist editions.