In this volume, Portuguese multimedia artist Juliao Sarmento (born 1948) showcases the archive of the film critic Rui Pedro Tendinha, which features indefinably odd photos of Tendinha posing awkwardly (and often with the same hand gestures) with celebrities such as Christian Bale, Joan Cusack, Mike Myers, Will Smith, Kevin Spacey, Jon Voigt and Emily Watson.

"Close Distance" is both an exhibition and a collaborative artist's book by Portuguese artist Juliao Sarmento and British writer Adrian Searle. Searle reviews Sarmento's output in painting, sculpture, installation, performance and film, which for Searle "speaks of sex, violence, the repressed, the unconscionable and the deliberately--provocatively--inexplicable."