Historically, Brazil’s identity has been shaped by its natural wealth, yet nature was imagined as separate from its people and culture. From colonial extraction to modern developmentalism, the environment was treated as fuel for national progress. Today, the climate emergency has fractured this narrative, revealing the false dichotomies that still frame environmental debate, protection versus development, global leadership versus sovereignty, despite their deep entanglement.
The series North, South, East, West engages this tension by presenting the Brazilian landscape as a dense field of mediation where cultural, political, and ecological forces intersect. Composed of eight monochrome digital montages, the series spans diverse regions, from the Amazon rainforest to the Araucarias of the South, the Cerrado of the Central Plateau, and the beaches of the Northeast. Rather than emphasizing regional specificity, the work reveals structural and textural continuities between organic forms and human interventions.
Images are built through layered exposures merging fragments of different times, scales, and geographies. Visible seams and overlaps function as a critical strategy, mirroring the fractures within the landscape itself. The viewer is invited to navigate these hybrid spaces, where landscape oscillates between document and construction, memory and projection, and where meaning remains in flux.
