For a year and a half, Kitty Paranaguá climbed the hills of Rio de Janeiro to record the public urban works carried out for the occasion of Rio de Janeiro’s 450th anniversary. She entered the dwellers’ homes in the communities to get better views of the city from their windows. The best views of Rio, everybody knows, are to be had from the hills. As she projected what she saw down below, inside the houses, and making fresh records, she revealed much more: people, stories and memory, creating a camera obscura from the relationship between, or dissolution of, exterior and interior, in images of high aesthetic and emotional impact.
22 AUG – 20 SEPT 2017
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