Close to the Sea, 2025

Eduardo Rezende  

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. 

From The Lavori in Corso series Archival pigment print on canvas 

More sizes and editions: 57.4 x 43.3 cm. Edition of 3 +1AP