“Tapeaba”

Using photography, artist Caio Reisewitz seeks to establish relationships between the construction of reality and the recording of the artificial. Winner of several awards – such as the acquisition prizes for the 4th and 6th editions of the exhibitions of the Museum of Modern Art of Bahia and the Sergio Motta Prize in 2001 – his work was exhibited at the 51st Venice Biennale, the 26th São Paulo Biennale, the 1st Bienal del Fin del Mundo (Ushuaia, Argentina), and the Nanjin Biennale (China). His works are part of the collections of the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo and the Cisneros Foundation (USA).

He specialized in photography at the Darmstadt School of Arts and the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, both in Germany. He holds a master's degree in visual poetics from the University of São Paulo. He returned to Brazil in 1997 to establish himself as one of the most important photographers of his generation in the field of visual arts. By subtly manipulating images, the artist creates encounters between concept and form through photomontages that, in some cases, such as "Joaçaba" or "Parentinga", were made from rephotographed collages. His proposal is also to mix reality and subjectivity, that is, what is seen with the perception we have of what we are seeing. For this reason, he takes images from tense situations that are not appealing, such as the series "Reforma Agrária", made in the interior of Goiás, and "Iguaçu", photographed after a period of heavy rains and floods.

Caio's photographs mainly explore themes such as landscape, land use and architectural use. They are distinguished by their peculiar point of view: in addition to not making social dramas explicit, Reisewitz proposes new approaches and perspectives for familiar landscapes. Using elaborate techniques, the artist creates refined works in which we can observe many of the issues relevant to contemporary photography.