Invisible Line

Invisible Line is a documentary project developed beneath the Santa Apolónia bridge in Lisbon, where around fifty people live in a space conceived solely as transit infrastructure. Initiated in 2020, the project remains ongoing. ‍The bridge, as an urban structure, establishes an invisible separation between two overlapping worlds: the city that circulates above and the community that organizes itself below. This line — not physical, but structural — defines an intermediate territory, where new ways of inhabiting emerge and where tents, objects, and everyday gestures reconfigure notions of permanence. ‍The project does not seek to represent homelessness as a statistical or exceptional phenomenon, but rather to observe how life reorganizes itself within a residual space of the city. The images are constructed from fragments — present bodies, suggested bodies, and absent bodies — revealing a silent intimacy shaped by traces, adaptations, and rituals. ‍Between public space and improvised shelter, a micro-society forms, with its own identity, in constant transformation. Beneath the bridge, what usually remains outside the field of vision becomes a direct reflection of the city and the collective choices that sustain it.