Exhibition “Every hour casts its shadow” by Rogério Medeiros

A Reverso Studio Gallery opens the exhibition “Each hour casts its shadow.”, artist's individual Roger Medeiros, curated by Catalina BerguesWhile not intended as a retrospective, the exhibition brings together works spanning more than two decades, including previously unseen pieces, revealing how Medeiros explores artistic languages ​​and investigates photography not as mere documentation, but as a plastic material capable of generating new images and meanings.

With around thirty worksThe exhibition brings together series produced throughout the artist's career, creating new dialogues between works created at different times and highlighting Medeiros' current production.

The exhibition seeks, above all, to reveal the continuity present in Medeiros' work throughout the years. On display are works ranging from the artist's earliest photographs,
Photographic collages and works that, while still using photography as their core, are marked by the deconstruction of photographic language through the use of only enlarged color.

Regarding the artist's work, Catalina Bergues comments: “Looking at Medeiros's production over the last 30 years, it's possible to see how aspects of his current work were already present back then, and that's precisely what this new exhibition does: it blends and reorganizes the series, creating connections based on elements and colors that reappear throughout his career. Rogério began by using photography to frame the outside. Now, in his current series, he uses the exterior image to look inward.”
The artist's trajectory helps to understand this shift from photography as a mere record to photography as material for a new type of visual construction.

As he himself says, "I've always been a photographer." But it was only in 2003 that he began producing his own work. Since then, nature has become his main source of visual and aesthetic stimuli. In the search for the visual essence of scenes, Medeiros began to develop an abstract language applied to photography, a characteristic commonly associated with his work. "My references, which were previously classical photographers and painters, became the abstract expressionists of the post-war period, mainly those of the New York School," he shared.

After the publication of his book, "Rhythm and Gesture," the development of Medeiros' work led him to add manual gesture to the process, and he began producing collages that deconstruct captured landscapes through free recombination. The result is unique and imaginary images created from real records, in an approach that questions the sign of photography and the very term "photographer."

“The search for new elements to work with in collages led me to photograph the sky and its rich palette of colors. I became interested in visual simplification, after all I was dealing with the manifestation and recording of pure and unique light, according to the time, latitude and weather conditions. Relating this to time and its implications for each individual was a natural sequence. From there arose reflections on the influence of time and experiences on matters of the psyche and feelings,” explains Medeiros.

In constructing his poetics, the artist uses cotton, rice, and pearlescent papers for printing with mineral pigments, as well as cardboard, plates, glue, acid-free adhesive tapes, and paper pulp to model surfaces.
This visual investigation of light and color from the sky also guides the spatial organization of the exhibition.

“Each hour casts its shadow” is presented chromatically, with the intention of progressing from dawn to dusk and night. It begins with white, moves through light blue, continues to oranges and violets until dark blue and, finally, black. The first room of the exhibition welcomes the visitor with a white work. “Besides being a work from this current phase of Rogério's production, it represents the great synthesis that the artist's work has reached, creating a white that, only by paying close attention, one perceives as not being homogeneous,” concludes the exhibition curator.

By bringing together different series, materials, and time periods, the exhibition highlights an ongoing investigation into light, time, and photography's ability to reinvent its own forms.

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Exhibition Every hour casts its shadow.
From March 21rd to April 25th
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