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SCULPTURES FROM A VULNERABLE SOCIETY it is the second chapter of a main project - Studies on the Dignity of the Human Person, which are fragments of the current political-socio-economical scenario in Brazil. The images were taken on Paulista Avenue and surroundings, in the city of São Paulo.

In this chapter II, my studies have focused on the pictures I have been taking of people who take shelter on the streets, totally wrapped in fragile materials to protect themselves, such as black plastics, blankets or paper boxes. We are not able to see their bodies and immediately  recognize them as human beings, except when they rarely move. This scenario draws attention to a very fragile human condition that is called social vulnerability, but is daily ignored and neglected by neighbors and the public power
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On my digital paintings over these images, I conceptually intend to reveal opposing feelings caused by their actual status. Representing them as singular sculptures, I seek to restore some human essences to them, which in fact have been loosened by the time, such as strength, individual Identity, stability, beauty, and so on.

SUMMARY BIOGRAPHY

Heloisa Lodder de Oliveira (São Paulo, 1969). She was born and lives in São Paulo, capital.

Bachelor of Graphic Design from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, she focuses on studies of the Visual Arts and investigates the men’s behaviour towards the environment in which they live.

AWARDS
2018   Studies on The Dignity of the Human Person - PhotoWerkBerlin/ EMOP European Month of Photography -
Street Projections 2018 - Winner
2018   Studies on The Dignity of the Human Person - LensCulture Street Photography Award 2018 - Finalist 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 
2018   Studies on The Dignity of the Human Person - Street Projections 2018 - Photo Werk Berlin/ EMOP European
Month of Photography, DE
2018   Studies on The Dignity of the Human Person - Screening - Les Rencontres d 'Arles, FR
2018   PhotoBook The Father of Lightnings - Tiradentes Festival of Photography, Tirandentes, BR
2017   PhotoBook The Father of Lightnings - Instituto Moreira Salles/IMS, Zum Festival, São Paulo,BR

BOOKS 
2017 . The photobook The Father of Lightnings was selected  and exhibited on ZUM 2017 Festival. It's cataloged
on the library of INSTITUTO MOREIRA SALES/IMS-SP.
It was created by a group of photographers, on the
city of Santos-SP, during the second edition of Valongo