|DES|CENTRAL brings together a contemporary panorama of photographers from various parts of Brazil. The exhibition resignifies the anthropological approach of foreign, Eurocentric observation by turning to the artist's everyday environment, intimately revealing each place that they propose to photograph, carefully exploring a poetic reality. It is a close look at action in space imbued with their personal cultures.

 

The photographs in the exhibition contemplate Belém in the humid, dense, dirty Amazon region, almost as if the photograph were sweating, as if it had pores. Slimy and musty from a lifetime of heat and storms as portrayed in the work of Caique de Deus. 

 

In Recife Maíra Erlich composes the image in increasingly complex layers. On each corner there is complex life where everything happens, where everything moves, where everything breathes. As if Akira Kurosawa’s Ran was synthesized there in each photograph.

 

Dark skin contrasts the Sword-of-Iansã, which with its poison brings the necessary protection for the wounds of his people. Hugo Martins explores Black culture in Bahia de Todos os Santos and transmits the same rhetorical power to the daily life of the municipal market and in studio rehearsals with all the cultural symbolism ingrained in his photographs.

 

A fascination with tanlines from a beach vacation and the distance from the sea marks the landlocked culture in the capital of Minas Gerais as observed by Dalila Coelho. Her aesthetics are protected and reflected in the care and beauty cultivated in the periphery. 

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|DES|CENTRAL shows the points in relation to which the central point of observation is equidistant, a peripheral look that comes from the edges and floods the center of spaces, people, and interests of each photographer. A look from the outside in and not the other way around, a self-discovery in search of meaning of things in the other.