Projeto participante do prêmio PhMuseum 2024 Photography Grant
to merge
to modify
to declare
to diverge
to project
to sculpt
to leave
to modify
to rearrange
to forget
to draw
to crowd
to stare
to hang
to be
to dwell
"No bodies, all bodies" is an attempt to expand the forms in which we can appear besides our own bodies and social markers. The human presence is also in the subtle remains of actions.
To touch, to manipulate, to interfere, to share, to keep, to rearrange, to catch, to interact, to move; verbs that project human traces. From the very start, we have made marks that do not depend on gender, ethnicity or social status. Trails with no apparent order are drew on surfaces by any living being. Random scribbles create paths that are not straight nor diagonal, they follow no logical order. The intuition to move around is a characteristic existent in the human essence; just like flies drawing their path around a lamp, moss painting on abandoned plastic or the first drop of water that creates a route down the window. A pattern guided by randomness makes us trace any surface; the floors, the walls, the things we touch…
It's also possible to talk about matters of existence without having to choose only one point of view. I think it is also political to look at the surroundings and not be restrained by a personal experience. In this way, it is tried to find the common starting point that connects us all in a way that possibly overcomes the imaginary line that divides us.
The differentiation and peculiarities are extremely important to be preserved, but in times when political polarization is taking place and most people find it difficult to respect other people's individualities, I understand that the first step is to see where our similarities lie. And that can be found in the basic actions, on the unnoticed things, on the subtle remains from which we can take further steps.
This project is not a collection of photographs to show the people I have met and their peculiarities, or even to expose where I live and a singular story about it. It is a project of what could've been left behind by any person and all of them; capturing humanity without a body having to be present. The images presented here were taken in São Paulo (Brazil), Amazonas (Brazil), Brasília (Brazil), Cuenca (Equator), Quito (Equator) and Baños (Equator).