The interlacing of what sustains
In the series Trama, Eduardo Rezende turns his gaze to the hidden structures of the built environment — the elements usually concealed beneath the polished surfaces of cities. Beams, joints, steel plates, rivets, columns, and reinforcements form the silent framework that holds up the modern urban world. By isolating these elements in rigorous, nearly abstract compositions, the artist reveals the underlying weave that sustains our daily lives. These images do not depict construction as spectacle, but as essence. The focus lies on what connects, interlocks, and gives form and resilience. Corten steel, reinforced concrete, welds, and industrial textures come together in a visual fabric marked by time, labor, and transformation. There is a constant tension between weight and lightness, strength and vulnerability. Rigid lines and structural angles are met with a sensitive photographic gesture that seeks rhythm, harmony, and poetry even in the raw mechanics of contemporary life. Through Rezende’s lens, the technical becomes aesthetic, and the functional, symbolic. Trama is, ultimately, an archaeology of the present — an attempt to understand the world by observing what holds it together. It is also a tribute to the visible and invisible connections that keep everything standing.
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Gravitas 17, 2025. Figurative Photography
Gravitas 17, 2025
From the series Gravitas
Archival pigment print on canvas
Dimensions: 53.1 H x 70.8 W in
Edition of 5 + 1AP
Unframed
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.
