Human figures take center stage over buildings and streets through the lens of photographer Carlos Moreira, 82. Urban space is depicted through framings suggested not only by historical monuments (which are indeed there) but, above all, by the body and its actions. What emerges is an emotional, living vision of cities, capable of triggering a sensory expansion of spatial portraits.
São Paulo and the coast (Santos and Guarujá) serve as the primary backdrop for his compositions, alongside his wanderings through South America, North America, Asia, and Europe. In the photographs taken over five decades, the passage of time in these cities is revealed through clothing and—perhaps most surprisingly—through gestures, expressions, and physical postures that, much like architecture, betray their age.
For Moreira, art could be divided between the classical and the baroque. The 350 photographic prints exhibited in the show “Carlos Moreira: Retrospective – WRONG SO WELL” (held at the Centro Cultural Porto Seguro in 2019) reflect the movement between these two poles in his photographic career. The result of an immersive exploration of an archive of 220,000 frames, the exhibition cast a fresh, panoramic gaze on the veteran photographer, whose career includes exhibitions at institutions like PS1 in New York and the Pompidou in Paris.
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