Eduardo Rezende’s 2024 series Lavori in Corso revisits one of the artist’s most enduring themes: the urban and architectural landscape — this time focused on construction sites, scaffolding, and the materials used to build, restore, and protect buildings. What we usually see as obstacles or visual noise becomes, through his lens, a field for aesthetic and cultural reflection.
Rezende transforms these transitory structures — steel frames, dust screens, safety nets — into visual compositions of rhythm, geometry, and light. His photographs strip away the human presence to highlight the textures, colors, and tensions that define the modern city in constant reconstruction.
Central to the series are the tarps and fabrics that veil and reveal, filtering light and producing patterns of transparency, shadow, and reflection. Stripes, folds, and tears become dynamic elements — like musical scores — where order and disruption coexist.
Color plays a crucial role, breaking the monotony of metal and white mesh with vivid chromatic contrasts that renew our sense of wonder. Rezende’s gaze, both poetic and analytical, finds beauty in what is temporary, overlooked, or imperfect.
Through these images, the artist invites us to reconsider the city not as a finished structure but as a living organism — fragile, rhythmic, perpetually in motion — and reminds us that even “under construction,” there is art, meaning, and humanity.
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Close to the Sea, 2025. Architectural Photography
Close to the Sea, 2025
From The Lavori in Corso series
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Eduardo Rezende (b. Rio de Janeiro, 1977) was introduced to art early in life through his mother, an art dealer. He began his career in photography in 2001 and has since developed a visual language defined by graphic precision, vibrant color, and a sculptural sensitivity to texture and form.
His work centers on spaces in transition — construction sites, ruins, and fragments of the urban landscape — where the overlooked becomes central. Even without human presence, his images reveal traces of time, labor, and material memory. Through his lens, ordinary elements are reimagined as compositions of striking chromatic and structural balance, challenging the viewer’s perception of depth and surface.
Rezende’s photographs inhabit the boundary between what is visible and what lies beneath. They blur distinctions between photography, painting, and architecture, transforming raw reality into poetic abstraction.
Living and working between cultures — primarily in Miami, Brazil, and Europe — Eduardo maintains a nomadic gaze shaped by movement and impermanence. His practice reflects on what is constantly being built, eroded, or reborn, offering a renewed way of seeing the contemporary world: one that recognizes beauty in process, in decay, and in the silent rhythm of transformation.
