Luiz Braga
There is something that goes beyond the beauty of the image itself and touches us deeply: something suggestive, insinuating and mysterious that attracts us to this miniature world that somehow expands and transcends the limits of the photo itself.
As the critic Paulo Herkenhoff so aptly pointed out, “in the work of Luiz Braga the battle for the emergence of language is sometimes fought through the anthropological seduction of the documental registering of culture and geography, and sometimes through the distension of the Amazonian reference”. The sublime, the critic continues, comes from the “refinement of the light”.
From a refined, thought-out, constructed light, not natural light in its brute state: the raw and naked luminosity of the equator.
Many of Luiz Braga’s photos are invitations to spin yarns or to draw upon the images to invent a narrative. The stillness and silence of the image provide food for thought.
The source for Luiz Braga’s work is indeed the Amazon; but the pictures themselves, possessed of a rare beauty, radiate a wealth of human and cultural values of a far wider reach. That is why Paulo Herkenhoff did not hesitate to affirm that “the only promise the work of Luiz Braga makes is to remain a concrete poetic presence”.
Copyright Milton Hatoum
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Galeria Oeste, São Paulo
As the critic Paulo Herkenhoff so aptly pointed out, “in the work of Luiz Braga the battle for the emergence of language is sometimes fought through the anthropological seduction of the documental registering of culture and geography, and sometimes through the distension of the Amazonian reference”. The sublime, the critic continues, comes from the “refinement of the light”.
From a refined, thought-out, constructed light, not natural light in its brute state: the raw and naked luminosity of the equator.
Many of Luiz Braga’s photos are invitations to spin yarns or to draw upon the images to invent a narrative. The stillness and silence of the image provide food for thought.
The source for Luiz Braga’s work is indeed the Amazon; but the pictures themselves, possessed of a rare beauty, radiate a wealth of human and cultural values of a far wider reach. That is why Paulo Herkenhoff did not hesitate to affirm that “the only promise the work of Luiz Braga makes is to remain a concrete poetic presence”.
Copyright Milton Hatoum
Please follow this link to see an extended CV, http://www.galerialeme.com/
Shown by:
Galeria Leme, Sao Paolo
Galeria Artur Fidalgo, Rio de Janeiro
Galeria Oeste, São Paulo
