Totem, 2024

Eduardo Rezende  

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. 

From the series Trama Archival pigment print on canvas. 

More sizes and editions: 64.9 x 43.3 in. Edition of 3 +1AP.