Plot of the Exhibition
Finding Rio
Finding Rio is a collection showing the shadows and lights of Rio de Janeiro. I wanted to report the duality and contrasting sensations I had, living this city just right after pandemic (during a politically dramatic moment), and when the political scenes changed in 2023, giving new hopes and potential opportunity to the population.
In the first part of the collection, humans are represented in controversial scenes as silhouettes or shadows. Here the humanity is under question, under a slight feeling of desperation and tiredness. The last photo of the first part: "Garoto da Ipanema" represents a young guy, still in the shadow but waiting for the ball to "fall from the sky", to catch it. That ball represents new hopes and new open doors.
The second part of the collection starts indeed with a woman at the door and represents a "humanity coming out". Humans are clearly visible, are strong women, although with faces signed by fear, time and difficulties. Humans come out from doors and walls, seeking for new directions. Humans smile again and gain self-confidence.
Fading lines of Pompidou
With this collection I wanted to highlight how the colors and “lines” of this modern art museums gives a special touch to the city of Paris. The colored tubes of this building makes this city fun to me, conjugate with colored Parisian people passing by, with cars and buses. I wanted to immortalize the faces of Pompidou as we know them so far (in 2024), because soon they will be changing. For few years, starting from 2025, the Pompidou center aesthetic and maybe colors will change. This was my “Hommage” to this place in Paris that always makes me smile.
Human hints and perception
Humans are passing by this planet and leaving an ephemeral sign on it. Humanity is in continuous research of itself. I wanted to immortalize all that. I photographed detailed gestures, shapes, reflections, shadows and human body parts to keep the perceptions that we exists or existed. Now we exist and insist, holding stronger, mixing our feelings, challenging the nature, keeping our beauty alive, building cities, being strong enough to restart and being all in one big paint as shadows of mass of human beings.
With this collection I also wanted to leave my trace.
The goal of kids
It is fun how kids and old people always attracted my photographic eye. Even though in a different way. It is somehow like the love I might have for a new still unread book and a book that I loved to read. In this collection, representing “unread books”, I wanted to highlight how all kids seem to have always a “goal”. They are always looking for something, busy trying to score, trying to win, to catch a ball or a soap ball that when you got it will eventually explode! It is just the pleasure of it. They always try to arrive first to marmalade and don’t eat it all! They ignore how much asphalt can hurt; they play. If we only could keep that determination and enthusiasm with a pure and genuine sense of that peaceful challenge, then we could also have a goal and with an adult sense of life, always win anyways.
