Caio Reisewitz
c-print mounted on Diasec
61.02 x 48.03 in
Photography is the primary medium in Caio Reisewitz’s work. Through technical refinement, his compositions reveal a sustained interest in human action and its social and political effects, whether in natural or architectural settings. His poetics builds a repertoire that can confront us with both human neglect and the visual poetry of these spaces.
One of a series of photographs taken at the coastal inlet known as Saco do Mamanguá, in Paraty (Rio de Janeiro state), "Mamanguá XXII" (2013) belongs to Reisewitz’s investigation of remote landscapes that evoke a sense of human absence. The region is known as Brazil’s only “tropical fjord” – an eight-kilometer marine inlet surrounded by mountains of the Atlantic Forest. Imperceptible to the naked eye, the image was captured at night through long-exposure analog photography, using Kodak slide film. Its bluish tone results from reciprocity failure, which occurs when the film’s response to incoming light is no longer in linear relation to exposure time, causing characteristic shifts in color. The work "Jacupiranga"(2025) derives from the artist’s recent research, developed with Tatiana Gonçales and Allan Yzumizawa, on São Paulo place names. It was produced in the Cananéia region, historically crisscrossed by a vast network of precolonial trails called the Caminho de Peabiru, which connected the Atlantic coast of Brazil to the Pacific Ocean, in present-day Peru, passing through territories that are now part of Paraguay and Bolivia. The route was used by both Indigenous peoples and European explorers.
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