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O Turista Aprendiz

The Series O Turista Aprendiz

These series are an homage to Brazilian writer Mario de Andrade’s ethnographic travel through the South American Amazon region. This travel is for Mario an illuminating journey in which he feels stranger in his own land. This is a travel of discomfort, the discomfort of the journey into the unknown where the everyday is replaced by novelty, the exotic, the different. These substitutions are elaborated and accompanied by the paradoxical feeling of always being “out” of events and, at the same time, the need to integrate and participate in these events.

The journey is not leisure, but painful learning, suffering, crossing the border zone between the imaginary and the real, popular and erudite, and marks the off-center path from its own intellectual limits to incorporate elements considered to be outside the official culture. Not knowing how to travel means not knowing how to adapt to multiplicity, not knowing how to work the different, the Other.

Etching and Silkscreen, 2019

O Turista Aprendiz

As I travel through South America I take on the look and attitude of the chronicler, led by the difference proposing a reference reading. As a foreigner to my own land I attempt tp narrate the world from mine already known perspective, seeking to understand the other through a referential framework.

Photogravure, Silkscreen on hand-cut Japanese paper, 2019