PREMIÈRE VUE | 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: ‘Achados e perdidos’, Sesc Pinheiros, São Paulo, Brasil / ‘Vuelvo al Sur’, L’Éte Photographique, Centre de Photographie de Lectoure , França /  ‘Première vue’, Passage de Retz, Paris, França / ‘Trajetórias 4’, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brasil 
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Photo: Kristine Thiemann