VUELVO AL SUR | 2006
Festival L’Éte Photographique, Centre de Photographie de Lectoure, França
Curator: François Saint Pierre
Description of works
1 - 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: ‘Achados e perdidos’, Sesc Pinheiros, São Paulo, Brasil / L’Été Photographique, Centre de Photographie de Lectoure, França / ‘Premiere vue’, Passage de Retz, Paris, França / ‘Trajetórias 4’, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brasil
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Photo: Alain Le Nouail, Renato Bezerra de Mello
2 - Choose me | 2006
I printed up a few thousand inkjet images enthusiastically shot with my first digital camera onto self-adhesive labels and offered them to the public. The exhibition space was slowly emptied of them as the work drew closer to its (never achieved) conclusion.
- Ink-jet prints on self-adhesive labels
- variable dimensions
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Photo: Renato Bezerra de Mello