CLOSE YOUR EYES

TO HARVEST THE PLANTED INTIMATE...

 

It is in this silence that I feel the sowing of these images.

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As Pina Bausch once said, “It’s not about art, or about mere

talent. It’s about life and, therefore, finding a language for life.”

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Clovis Ferreira França is a born diplomat, who weaves a treaty

of serene and polished calligraphy about the Gaze, taking

away our wounds to give us the gift of a reconnection with

the eternal within our finiteness.

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Uncommon stairways, nearly scenic fraternal invitations
in which the door arises as a passage rather than a barrier...

The raw materials that construct the scenes of life are here

underscored (“it’s wood, it’s stone,”Tom Jobim would
say), color winds through this series at some moments like

Klee, at others like Miró, Vasarely or Volpi, sometimes
like palimpsests, moments that swept the world and its

geometric and chromatic codes.

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There is a maternal touch to the framings, nothing wounds

the offspring, everything is transformed, everything is worth

the effort despite the sorrows, kindling a longing for life in life.

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GAL OPPIDO

PHOTOGRAPHER, MUSICIAN AND PROFESSOR OF VISUAL LANGUAGE