Museu de Arte do Rio hosts exhibition by French photographer

The exhibition Margens, by French photographer Ludovic Carème, opened yesterday (3) at the Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR), in Praça Mauá, in the port area of ​​Rio de Janeiro. There are 68 black and white photographs that portray the reality of communities in Brazil, with riverside populations in the Amazon and slums in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. The photographer lived in Brazil for more than 10 years, in the 2000s, and has already photographed war refugees from Bosnia, Malian immigrants in France and Haitians in the Dominican Republic, in the 1990s, always with his sensitive and contemporary style. Portraitist of international stars such as John Malkovich, David Lynch, Woody Allen, and in Brazil, Milton Nascimento, Ruth de Souza and Oscar Niemeyer, Ludovic explains that, upon arriving in Brazil, he immersed himself in documentary photography. “When I arrived in the city of São Paulo, with its characteristic urban effervescence, I felt the expression of a diversity of the world as it is, without hypocrisy. It is not those who write or make history that concern me, but those who are subject to it. When I do a portrait, I don’t look at my model as a stranger or the other, but as my contemporary,” he explained. The show is divided into three series. In Favela Água Branca, the urban occupation on the bank of the Tietê River, in São Paulo, the photographer shows the daily life of a community condemned to disappear in the face of real estate speculation, in addition to the transformation of abandoned spaces in the largest megalopolis in South America into refuges for street people. The following series, On the banks of the Jurupari River and Envira River, in Acre, Carème brings a powerful and destroyed forest with its residents. For the photographer, both environments are connected by their common origin: “Like the inhabitants of São Paulo that I photographed, those of Acre are descendants of slaves from the Northeast and these vestiges, unfortunately, are still present”. In the last series, Portraits and Sea, Carème photographed young residents of Favelas da Maré and Morro da Babilônia, in Rio de Janeiro, based on the question “what would you like for your future? 🇧🇷 The portraits are set against the Rio de Janeiro sea, drawing a parallel between the hope of young people and the vastness of the ocean. MAR’s executive director, Sandra Sérgio, explains that the work witnesses injustice and human frailty through the lens. “From a collection of 68 photos, which will be donated by the photographer to our collection, we present Brazil from a more inclusive and more pluralistic perspective, portraying everything from the daily life of the indigenous populations of the Amazon to the hope in the eyes of young people from Rio de Janeiro” . The show is curated by Christian Caujolle. The show is a partnership between the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI), the managing institution of MAR since December 2020, and the Embassy of France in Brazil. The exhibition can be seen until the 26th of March. *With the help of Cristiane Ribeiro, reporter for Radiojornalismo EBC

Agência Brasil