Winners Gallery - FotoSlovo 2025
Series - FotoSlovo 2025 - Category « Conceptual photography »
Honorable Mention
In "Chão de Histórias" (Ground of Stories), I explore the relationship between territory and family history by recognizing roots and seeds that transcend generations. The work is based on a mirroring between humans and the land, highlighting the construction of a genuine sense of identity and belonging through artistic gestures that weave together past and present, emphasizing both transformations and continuities and is organized into subseries. “Dobra do Tempo” presents collages composed of landscapes captured by me in 2022 in the backlands of Pernambuco State, Brazil, combined with hand cut landscape images from my family archive and Renaissance lace—a local tradition introduced to Brazil in the 19th century by French nuns and later passed on to Indigenous women. These collages establish a continuity of forms between these three “materials,” weaving a superimposition of times. "Encontro" brings together portraits of my paternal grandmother’s distant ancestors and clay, representing the dry, sandy soil of the region. It is a kind of synthesis of my origins and the central premise of "Chão de Histórias” : we are one with the land that holds our roots and seeds.