Luiza Baldan

Luiza Baldan's photographs and videos are guided by the real places she encounters, but the artist uses them to construct compositions that are not necessarily credible. She produces images that generate a sense of suspended time, often through strategic lighting and cropping. The places in her works are full of memories and traces, however it is not apparent when the sites were left. Most of her photographs speak of absence. They lack human presence, but do not intend to highlight the place and its architecture. Instead, Baldan shows that those spaces were used, experienced, and busy. There are signs of human activity in them, but at the same time an absence of inhabitants. For example, the people featured in her Urban Diary series, are not characters, the works are not ​​portraits–they are image composition elements.

Exhibitions of Baldan’s work have been held in Rio de Janeiro at the Modern Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro, the Palace of Arts, the Crossings 2 (Shed of Tide), the Instituto Moreira Sales, and Centro Cultural Maria Antonia at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil Rio.

Courtesy of Carbono Galeria