ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Those are real places where it all occured, real objects and real notes exchanged by the lovers. Tornaras, in a sense, are photographs that take the form of a long and intimate letter to someone’s memory.
Made during one year with a medium format camera, it was like a rite of passage between the state of love and the state of forgetfullness. It is also a delicate, homoerotic narrative rooted in symbolism.
Photography came as a rescue. Before the camera is the performance, the self portrait and, paraphrasing a master of the juxtaposition between documentary and fiction,the dual imaginary function of cinema. Abbas Kiarostami wrote that he was after the reality behind the apparent reality. This performance was made while we forgot it was a performance.
AUTHOR
Born and raised in the city of Rio de Janeiro, he graduated in cinema and co-directed two feature documentaries. The film-essay "Under Clarice's Eye", about identity, pseudonyms and multiple personalities from the perspective of the writer Clarice Lispector, was co-directed by Raquel Couto and produced by Luiz Fernando Carvalho.
In April 2018 he self-published the photobook "Tornaras" with a limited edition of 100 copies. The photobook will have a special release in SP-Arte/Foto in august.
Brazilian artist Rodrigo Pinheiro uses photography to understand affection and traumatic experiences. With the performance, the fiction in place of reality, the self portrait, he proposes a re-signification of lived events, as if it were possible to fabricate a change of consciousness. His minimal and silent approach leads us to meditate on objects, people, spaces, thus creating an aura of revelation. Memory is the subject of his work. But, according to him, memory is a very broad word. To simplify, he says that his memory is square, which explains the 6x6 format; it frequently transits between color and black and white within the same memory; and, more importantly, it loses the distinction between performance and whatever is non-performance.
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