Reconstructed view
March 15 - June 22, 2020
São Paulo, Brazil
These photographs chronicle the multiple traces of the
humans and non-humans from the window of a modernist apartment building in São Paulo.
These sequences, taken at different moments during a four-month-period, reconstruct and reframe the ordinary view into a collection of fragmentary everyday scenes.
Differently from European cities, where buildings are mostly close to each other, in some areas in São Paulo neighbors cannot easily communicate through verandas or common courtyards. For this reason, most of the images produced were registered with the camera adapted to a binocular, a home-made invention.
These microstories speculate about some crucial issues related to discussions of race, gender, and class. During the pandemic, who has the privilege to stay at home?
The images created try to highlight this friction: black women cleaning windows, busy maintenance and construction workers on-site, and uber delivery bicycles handling packages right next to yoga practitioners, sun-tanning enthusiasts, and home-office sessions.