MARGENS MARGINS
by
LUIZ OLIVEIRA LUIZA PALHARES
São Francisco River is one of the biggest watercourses in South America. Navigable, home of the fishes Surubim and Dourado, runs through five Brazilian states holding quite different natural environments and disembogues in the Atlantic Ocean. During fifteen intense days navigating, photographers Luiza Palhares and Luiz Carlos Oliveira used their camera in order to record their trip. These pictures resulted in the Margins Exhibition, which presents several margins of the same river. Margin, by definition, is someplace in between. One who takes pictures is between two realities, two margins. The photographer’s margin embodies his own way of understanding reality around him whereas the photography’s margin contemplates its own specific reality, regardless of the photographer himself . Therefore, we were always living within margins. Besides, as we spent one day in each village by the river, we couldn’t break through the physical limits surrounding us, therefore we registered what we saw on the margins of the river. Furthermore, we believe that one who visits our exhibition will have a chance to see himself in between these margins. Always within margins, always somewhere in between the idea we propose and people’s own interpretations of it. That’s why the title margins engender multiple possible situations. There are a handful of São Francisco River’s photographs. Pictures of old villages illustrating the river’s history and pictures of social and cultural issues regarding its people. Our pictures are not intended to mask these features, but they aim at surpassing these boundaries introducing a more poetical interpretation – “to foster its multiple possible meanings”. This interpretation implies the margin situation, the idea of being within something. The pictures reflect spontaneous moments of these margins, but, on the other hand, they portray a careful look at phenomena taking place at the river’s borders; gales, wild animals, the dawn reflected on the waters, boats that lived these margins for a long time. When editing this material for the exhibition we selected pictures that account for the plurality of possible interpretations in both a continuous manner, by using some series of pictures, and also by adding individual pictures to create some breaks throughout the presentation, always using a poetical and dialectical approach which can be found on the Margins of São Francisco River.
Luiza Palhares
These photos were taken in 2013 Using digital and analogical cameras Dimensions 60x40cm
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Luiz Oliveira is a photographer and artist from Brazil. Graduated in Journalism at PUC–MG and Fine Arts at Escola Guignard. In his works, contemporary art and photojournalism dialogue, creating a rather subtle photojournalism.
Luiza Palhares is a photographer and artist graduated in Fine Arts at Escola Guignard. She lives and works in Brazil. Make works using the photography of nature landscapes is her main mode of expression regarding art works, nevertheless she is interested in using other medias such as performance arts.
LUIZ OLIVEIRA lc.damiao@hotmail.com (skype) hDps://www.facebook.com/luizcarlos.o.ferreira (+55) 31. 84007882 Further informaPon available at:hDp://www.flickr.com/photos/luizdamiao/ LUIZA PALHARES luizapalhareslup@gmail.com (skype) hDps://www.facebook.com/luiza.palhares.7 (+55) 31. 96268177 Further informaPon available at: hDp://www.flickr.com/photos/meuinstanteeterno/