EXHIBIT-A

Exhibit A

A right-click-saved exhibition to showcase Artists

Exhibit A

"For me, photography is an exercise in observation and thinking.

"I state my thoughts this way and people can take their time in getting something out of it, or not. I like to think that other artists are responding to what I do with their own work in an indirect way so that we all are in just one big conversation trying to understand ourselves as human beings."

The Art of @gallegosfer [Fernando Gallegos]

I don’t think a lot about anything before doing the images, when I feel I want to make photographs I go out and start doing it, it’s in the act of observation that a theme pops up that allows me to think a bit more deeply into something that surrounds me (...)

ON DISPLAY FROM SEPTEMBER 1st - 30th

It feels like he listened and each photograph is now talking to you, telling a story of how it is to walk around those streets.

So I was taking a walk on The Infinite Corridor from Fernando Gallegos and the way he brings the chaotic nature of the streets of northern Mexico made me think about São Paulo. At some point, lost in the city and the scenes of his work, I almost had to stop and check again if it wasn't in fact a series of photos of my city.

The concrete everywhere and the plain sun mix with moments of life and nature trying its best to survive.

I never studied urbanism or architecture but there's something about Latin American cities that seems different from other countries, the randomness of artifacts, objects and experiences that a walk around these cities brings.

And this is the same feeling with Fernando's work.

To roam around São Paulo is sort of a testament of how chaos works. You walk around and feel that the streets are talking, you just have to wait and listen.

Fernando says that the normal American-style urban landscape photography don't apply here, here being out of place is the norm - so the work becomes just an invitation to our labyrinths. And I have to agree.

It's a chaotic energy that was captured to reflect this feeling. Also, the humor is something that I appreciate in the titles illuminating how it is to walk around the Infinite Corridor.

"The Infinite Corridor was made in a series of long walks through the sunny streets of northern Mexico. Photographed in a chaotic, fragmented style, I hope this collection feels as uncomfortable as it is to walk through the streets of these cities."

and it’s, in fact, a part of my daily life. When I start focussing on a particular thing I start making photographs in a more focused way but still sufficiently loose so that there’s a lot of creative room for the editing process. (...)

My work ends up being very fragmented most times as most of it is a combination of thoughts as chaotic as the landscape that surrounds me, narrated in a train of thought style. It’s in that confusion that I like to discuss the way we live and connect with each other."

Once a friend from France was taking a bus around here (SP) and - coming from a place where a city has somewhat of a defined aesthetic - he said he didn't understand the city.

But I don't know, maybe it was never meant to be understood. Just experienced in its full chaotic contrast.

"Creating is just a way of communicating for me. Like most photographers, I’m extremely introverted, it’s difficult for me to engage in conversation with people and feel connected with others. (...)

And how is it to create for you?

Creating bodies of work specifically with photography is some kind of change of pace in which I don’t need an immediate answer."