Eduardo Santos: Lucena Tambem Series

In a recent voyage to the terrain of his childhood in Lucena, Brazil, Eduardo Santos travelled through both temporal and geographical distances to a landscape of isolation and memory.

In the works inspired by Lucena, the artist draws on a mineral real bleached by the sun. Earlier photographic works fused colour into movement. In this new series, works that were once bolstered by the magnetic gravity and velocity of the earth's horizon seem to now float and ascend. In starky minimal compositions, the patterns of fishing nets intersect with the trails left by the tug of the tide. Minute traces expand into vast topographices. The intricate stands for the monumental.

Ethereal and sensitive to every tiny remnant and texture, these are photographs inspired to reverence for an obscure and seculded coastal ladnscapes. A homage to both the motherland and the mother. Here, on pearlescent beaches, the pale reach of the sky fuses with the sand and the ocean meets in an ellipse. In this unknown place, the horizon has the power to fold in upon itself, inverting the waves into the clouds. And on the skin of the sand, humans and creatures leave their trails, raking delicate pathways ebbed on the sand.