Honorable Mention TIFA 2024 Architecture / Abstract

Imagined Architectures, Architected Images

  • Photographer
    Jose Roberto Bassul
  • Agency / Studio
    Www.joserobertobassul.com
  • Photo Date
    2017-2024

This series addresses the approaches between photography and painting. However, instead of adopting an academic or impressionist language, it opts for geometric abstraction. In these images everything is architecture and everything is photography, including the colors (building surfaces). However, I seek to derange both the idea of architecture and photography. I photograph buildings to undo them. With its fragments, I create collages and juxtapositions. Born from existing architecture, the photographs are transfigured. They become imagined architectures. Architected images. Like a painting.

José Roberto Bassul was born in Rio and lives in Brasilia. His photography turns to architecture and urban environment as an attempt "to draw thoughts, project desires and built spaces for the imagination". He has received several awards and his works has often been exhibited in festivals, galleries and museums in solo and group shows in Brazil and abroad. He has published two photobooks. His works are held in important private and public collections such as those of National Museum of Republic (Brasilia), Art Museum of Rio, Museum of Modern Art (Rio) and Museum of Photography (Fortaleza).