Sesc Pinheiros, São Paulo, Brasil

Curator: Cláudia Tavares e Dani Sotter

Visionaries | 2002

For this work I brought characters from family stories and legends into the ordinary world of viewers by recollecting and reproducing black and white slides of old photographs from a variety of sources: from the earliest photography studios of Brazilian portrait artists all the way through to amateur images from the start of the twentieth century.

• series: three installations with 225 viewers each + 1 AP 
• plastic viewers and B/W slides
• variable dimensions
• EXHIBITIONS: 'Vuelvo al Sur’, L’Été Photographique, Centre de Photographie de Lectoure França / ‘Trajetórias 4’, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brasil / ‘Première vue’, Passage de Retz, Paris, França
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Photo: Claudia Tavares