The focus of this study is the human being. It is about walking, observing and making yourself present in the contemplation. It proposes the convergence of anonymous people, the strangeness to what is ordinary and the representation in space-time of the life of others. To snip this manifest body that is in action in the streets and to bring it to the same environment in which it was captured causes the presence of its image to generate new ties with the urban space, both aesthetically and socially. This is because the city is a territory in constant transformation. An area of freedom. That should be consumed, exploited and manifested. It is an environment where one needs to be present to have some change. When space is empty, it generates an absence and it is precisely this absence that generates a space that can be appropriated. The urban demonstration helps to build this territory. The daily expressiveness of the passers-by of the urban environment is captured and printed in real size to compose suggestive scenarios that define the essence of work. These images incite people on the streets to question their presence in the absence of a body-not-body, establishing symbolic bonds in the appropriation of space and time of an anonymous life. They open doors to new perceptual worlds, create new looks, and widen the horizon, leaving behind information of their presence when they are absent. I believe that these urban interferences invite us to escape from our own body. The hidden face of the anonymous and the iconophagy¹ of the images (sometimes images devour men, and sometimes images are devoured by men) often, simultaneously, create connections between the image reproduced and inserted in the urban space with us, real passers-by.

Habana (Cuba)

Trancoso (Brasil)