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ARTIST'S STATEMENT

About “Rubi 75”

Unable to work and freely circulate because of a skateboarding accident, the photographer began to observe his house and family, forced to meditate on what represents private life and its space. 

Out of this simple experience- meditating on the basic moments of everyday life- exploded a process rich in personal experience, creativity and intensity.  Focusing on the mundane, such as common shared spaces in the house, or the repeated observation of the same walls many times a day with no escape, led the artist to develop a rare level of clarity and emotional truth in his photographs. From a period of time that could have been full of stress and anguish, instead arose a vital poetic energy that the Rubi 75 series encapsulates.

It is a work that rescues us from the rage of big cities where life justifies itself only with big happenings and lots of money.  It proposes that we rethink the possibilities of interaction with small things in our life and recover the real pleasure of living.  To surprise yourself with a delicate and desirable look from your dog; to your plate of food; to fall in love with your companion through small gestures; to discover life.

This way, Beto, as a young photographer in Sao Paolo, without knowing it, dove deeply into the poetic universe of the banal, so many times presented by a generation of great photographers, although not always granted by a world that claims for great big happenings.

Marcelo Greco, curator
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