The city grows spontaneously. Disordered. Up and down, wherever there is space. Every style is mixed together. There is no development plan for the cities in Brazil, so they become a huge architectonic collage. It is after this perception of the city that this work was created. As a play, collages are made from disconnected pieces of houses and buildings in order to create other ones. These new buildings are strange but, even though, they seem very familiar, once it is like that our perception works. The series consists of 19 collages.

(de)construction

A place that reminds another place, that reminds another place, that reminds another place. Photography, like drawing or painting, made from memory. A collage-city that we no longer know if is real or invented, deconstructed by memory or constructed by imagination. In this series, which is a continuation of previously developed series, different parts from different cities are put together in an attempt to create an unlikely but possible landscape, carrying all the idiosyncrasies of so many cities that have gone through periods of colonialism and, later on, a kind of spontaneous auto-colonialism in architecture. In a modular format, the collages can be connected in a continues panorama landscape.

Random City

While the cities are getting bigger, the apartments are getting smaller. In high density areas, view and luminosity started to be luxury items. To emphasize this issue, the photographs of this series take advantage of the difference of light inside and outside to create flat and graphic images, which put in evidence even more poignantly this lack of space.

Letícia Lampert